Frederik, that assumes it's a matter of localization. But the workweek doesn't begin on Sundays in the UK or the US, even if most calendars are apparently printed that way.
Preferences are a helpful feature, but they don't generally apply on websites. Diana On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Fredrik Matheson<fredrik.mathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Think of it this way: if you give me the presentation I'm familiar with, > I'll give you your data that much faster. You say that the week starts on > Sunday; I am equally adamant about it starting on a Monday, and nothing > anyone says will make any of us change our minds. > > Therefore, you should support international formats (day, date, time, > address, currency, week start) and set these automatically using IP > addresses and make it easy for people to change these manually, for the > Englishman using a French website, etc. > > More generally, any application or service that makes use of days, dates, > time, currency or address should accommodate local formatting variations. > > BTW: I've found that the best way to format addresses is to ask people to > select their country first, and then present an address form that matches > their local format. This increases completion rates. Why? Because it lets > you fill in your address the way you're used to, rather than trying to > figure out how to reformat it to suit the form you're facing. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
