週刊OSM 776

14 Replies to “週刊OSM 776”

1. I am reading this on a cell phone.
   The language selector should be near the top, not near the bottom. Thank you.

   1. Somebody asked me if I had looked in the menu. Whoever heard of a language selector being hidden in a menu? Besides on a cell phone there is no menu on this web page.

      Anyway I’m talking about that bunch of flags… maybe they take up too much space, that’s why they put them down the bottom. Well they could squeeze them together. Or maybe forget about the flags at all, and just use a drop-down menu for picking what language to read OSMweekly in.

      1. As it is a disturbing element for most viewers, we do not want to place it more prominently. Language selectors are quite common in the menu of mobile websites. See un.org, booking.com, google.com, ikea.com, zara.com. Nevertheless the webpage should guess the language on your region/system settings and also store your selection for future visits in a cookie. On social media, we link directly to respective versions.

2. This somebody was me. You expressed this wish some time ago. As a result, @Matthias sat down and programmed this menu (see picture). It appears immediately when you open the page on your mobile phone. One click and you can select the language. As Mat has already explained above, we are not prepared to move the flags for good reasons.

   https://qu.ax/akqrY.jpeg
   https://qu.ax/riQAX.jpg

   1. Your screenshot looks perfect. Your screenshot shows a list of languages, just like I wanted. And then there’s even also a menu button. However I do not see either of those items. I swear I’m using the world’s most popular Chrome browser, beta even, on the world’s most popular Android cell phone, on the world’s most popular Samsung brand. Well you get the idea.

      1. We tested on Android with Chrome, Firefox and Brave. Works very well.

      2. Btw … the feature exists since February 2024 and it was created as you asked about it.

         1. New tests on Samsung with Android 14 + following browser

            1. Duckduckgo -> works
            2. Opera -> works
            3. Vivaldi -> works
            4. Tor -> works

            Conclusio:

            1. I am happy to announce I found the menu button. One has to be very careful because moving the screen up or down makes it disappear. And it doesn’t come back.
               Now my next task is to find that nice list of languages. I’m not talking about the flags.

            2. Please see the rest of my comments through June 16. Thanks.

3. Okay. Do this experiment: go down and find the Italian flag and push it. You now see the list of languages just like in his screenshot. Everything is great. Now at the front of that list push the word “English”. Voila, there you are looking at the same thing I’m looking at: no list of languages! Sure, you might say, “Well you just chose a language, so you don’t need to see the list anymore.” Well, I would reply after I’m finished reading the article I want to pass my cell phone to my friend Kai-shek who wants to read it in a different language. You never know. Or maybe I’m just bored with this language and want to try another language. Or maybe my finger slipped and I regret chosing that language.

4. Or simply pushing the flags: I put the Italian flag, I get a list of languages at the top of the article. If I then scroll down and push the British flag, no list of languages at the top of the article. I’m telling you it’s just not fair :-}

   1. I meant push, not put anyway, there’s some complex logic going on that needs to be cleaned out. No reason to hide that list of languages ever. The cost of getting it wrong, outweighs the minor bother of people seeing it again. Or if it really needs to be hidden sometimes, have a globe icon with a v-shaped down arrow to open a selector

5. By the way, near the top of the article there is a black box that says weeklyosm.
   It turns out this is a link to an archives category. Therefore maybe that black box should have a different name.