Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/31/07 21:16

Scripsit Bernhard Sturm:

> I use FF. Which button would bring me to the top of a page? 'Home'
> doesn't work,

It works in typical situations. If you have an untypical situation, you
should find out what works there - if you think that it is important to be
able to get to the start of a page quickly. After all, other sites don't
have the same kind of button as yours, and most of them (wisely) don't have
any "to top" button.

> I have never met anybody
> (I mean not a 'geek') knowing that there is a button or a shortcut
> bringing him/she to the top of a page.

Really? Anyway, I expect all users to know how to move forward and backward
on a page. (Or should all authors also add "Click here to move forward" etc.
buttons? :-) )Whether they know the obvious shortcuts like Home and End key
is a matter of convenience, and knowing them surely helps more than learning
to find different strange "to top" buttons on miscellaneous pages.

>> P.S. Do you use browser-sniffing? That's a problem, too. I get
>> different results (e.g. in date formats) when accessing the page on
>> IE and on Lynx.
> No, no browser sniffing... Server side I use the LocaleIDs of the UA
> via ASP (ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")) in order to format
> date stamps. But I believe it is not correctly working.

The very idea is incorrect. When your page is in German, the dates in its
content should follow whatever conventions you regard as applicable to the
German language. The browser settings in a visitor's browser are irrelevant.
Specifically, check what the Accept-Language request header is for. It is
for selecting among different language versions of a page (when the same
content exists in different languages). It is not meant for mixing, say,
Chinese or Arabic or Finnish date notations into the content of a page in
German.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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