On May 26, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Lynda wrote: > If you're just someone > who is expecting something to work today the way it did yesterday, why > make it so hard to get that same experience?
If that's the expectation, then may I politely suggest that "the internet" is not at all the place to hang out. Internet sites, especially sites like Google, are constantly evolving to improve their experience, their metrics, etc., etc., and to expect that it's just "always going to be like it was the other day" is simply not a reasonable expectation in the world we live in. > but what on earth made them switch from WORDS to that stupid gear symbol? Because that "stupid gear symbol" is rapidly becoming the "language independent" symbol for "preferences". So if, perhaps, you can't read the language on the screen at all, you can still find the place where you might be able to say, change the preference for language. There is nothing more frustrating than being given a localized version of a page when you're visiting a foreign country and don't actually read the native language, and it's not even in an alphabet similar to your own (ie, try visiting Israel without speaking Hebrew, and finding the preference for changing your language back to English... I'd've killed for it to be a universal icon like the gear rather than yet another word in an alphabet I can't understand). D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
