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I18n is hard in so many ways
16 JunA rather long and rambling post about various things that are likely to cause headaches when dealing with the world outside your own country. More accurately, things that have caused me headaches in the past, so others can learn from my pain.
A slightly ranty talk about why language picker widgets should not include country flags as prettifying icons
(or - Stop users button mashing while you generate their reports)
Imagine you have a webapp that dynamically generates reports, maybe they're PDFs (mine often are). Sometimes these reports take a while to produce, because they're retrieving and processing a load of data from some huge database.
A while ago I started using HEAD requests via Ajax in some apps and thought I'd write a few notes about why. Basically it's to improve user interfaces/experience when things start getting complicated.