Comments on: Character Encoding UI in Firefox http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/09/character-encoding-ui-in-firefox/ Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Prognathous http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/09/character-encoding-ui-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Prognathous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=151#comment-636 How about the following changes: * Under Auto-Detect, change "Off" to "Use Default ()" * Under Character Coding, change "More >" to "More Encodings >" and "Customize..." to "Customize List..." If I find the time, I plan to tackle the last two changes in Bug 52157 <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52157#c13">http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52157#c13</a> Prog. How about the following changes:

* Under Auto-Detect, change “Off” to “Use Default ()”

* Under Character Coding, change “More >” to “More Encodings >” and “Customize…” to “Customize List…”

If I find the time, I plan to tackle the last two changes in Bug 52157
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52157#c13

Prog.

]]> By: Prognathous http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/09/character-encoding-ui-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Prognathous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=151#comment-637 My comment got messed up, by "Use Default ()" I meant "Use Default ({intl.charset.default})" Prog. My comment got messed up, by “Use Default ()” I meant “Use Default ({intl.charset.default})”

Prog.

]]> By: jgraham http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/09/character-encoding-ui-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-638 jgraham Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=151#comment-638 Isn't mpt great? <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3A3B5573.69C11095%40student.canterbury.ac.nz&rnum=2">http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3A3B5573.69C11095%40student.canterbury.ac.nz&rnum=2</a> Isn’t mpt great?

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3A3B5573.69C11095%40student.canterbury.ac.nz&rnum=2

]]> By: mpt http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/09/character-encoding-ui-in-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-639 mpt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=151#comment-639 Ha! I was just about to post the same link, though without the adulation of course. (For more informative entertainment, later in that thread I dared to teach Netscape's chief encoding person how encodings work. <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3A3CDD5E.924D30AC%40student.canterbury.ac.nz">http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3A3CDD5E.924D30AC%40student.canterbury.ac.nz</a> ) After three and a half years, the one thing I'd change about that design would be to remove the Cancel and OK buttons, making it an instant-apply window so you wouldn't have to keep reopening the window when you were trying to find an encoding that worked. That's how it's implemented in Epiphany (<a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/1.2-encoding-menu.png">http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/1.2-encoding-menu.png</a> <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/1.2-encoding-dialog.png">http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/1.2-encoding-dialog.png</a> ), though they unfortunately had to add a redundant "Close" button to follow the Gnome HIGs. Ha! I was just about to post the same link, though without the adulation of course. (For more informative entertainment, later in that thread I dared to teach Netscape’s chief encoding person how encodings work. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3A3CDD5E.924D30AC%40student.canterbury.ac.nz )

After three and a half years, the one thing I’d change about that design would be to remove the Cancel and OK buttons, making it an instant-apply window so you wouldn’t have to keep reopening the window when you were trying to find an encoding that worked. That’s how it’s implemented in Epiphany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/1.2-encoding-menu.png http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/1.2-encoding-dialog.png ), though they unfortunately had to add a redundant “Close” button to follow the Gnome HIGs.

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