Re: Re: [Galeon-devel] Re: [Usability]Galeon 2 usability - A few ideas on menus

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 21:41, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Il gio, 2002-10-17 alle 20:42, Yanko Kaneti ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 14:16, [email protected] wrote:
> > > >I have a few thoughts on the menus
> > > >
> > > >View menu
> > > >
> > > >Is encoding really something that fits on user menus rather than
> > > >preferences
> > > 
> > > I would love if someone could explain me the use of that menu. I have no
> > > clues about i18n :(
> > 
> > I think you've heard this before but probably forgotten about it ;).
> 
> Yeah, I keep forgetting things unless I use them.
> 
> > Its used for overriding the page-supplied or auto-detected charset of
> > the currently displayed page. 
> > Pages needing this treatment are quite common in the Cyrillic world in
> > which we have at least 3 different widely used encodings.
> > I would imagine its needed in the same way for Chinese, Japanese and for
> > all the badly formated non-latin web thats out-there.
> > 
> > Its a "fix" thats used intermittently and per embed so its not advisable
> > to be moved to a more global location.
> > 
> > Imo the encoding menu should stay exactly where it is. (as in most other
> > browsers).
> > 
> 
> Ok, in which cases you need to override them ? When autodetect fails and
> charset is not supplied by the page ?

- autodetect failure  (although mozilla does a fine job,  where it can)
- wrong supplied charset not matching the content

Both these can be observed quite regularly.


Yanko


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