language Persistence bug?
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:30 pm
I've recently been playing around with the various language options for the booking page and discovered a peculiar (but rather rare - at least until Beds24.com becomes widespread) and unexpected behaviour.
This is the scenario:
Visit the Beds24.com booking page that has enabled language options other than English.
An example would be http://epicea.ch/ in Switzerland where the
direct URL for their Beds24.com booking page is
https://www.beds24.com/booking.php?prop ... rer=epicea
Click on the french tricolour at top right to enable the Beds24.com booking page in French. Close the foreign language enabled Beds24.com booking page and visit a Beds24.com booking page that does NOT have any languages enabled.
(An example would be https://www.beds24.com/amberhouse)
Et voila, the (normally English) Beds24.com booking page is displayed in French!
And, since Amber House has not yet enabled any languages, there are no flags visible at top left to switch back to the (Beds24.com booking page default) language of English!
Perhaps ALL Beds24.com booking pages should have a Union Flag in the top right position (even if they have no other language possibilities) to avoid this rare but awkward scenario?
Also, consider implementing hover text when the mouse cursor is positioned over a "language flag" - eg:
"klik voor vertaling in het Nederlands/ Dutch",
"Cliquez pour la traduction dans le Français/ French",
"klicken Sie für Übersetzung in Deutschen; German",
"scattisi per la traduzione in italiano/ Italian",
"przetłumaczyć na język polski/ Polish",
"esta le para a tradução no português/ Portuguese",
etc
This is the scenario:
Visit the Beds24.com booking page that has enabled language options other than English.
An example would be http://epicea.ch/ in Switzerland where the
direct URL for their Beds24.com booking page is
https://www.beds24.com/booking.php?prop ... rer=epicea
Click on the french tricolour at top right to enable the Beds24.com booking page in French. Close the foreign language enabled Beds24.com booking page and visit a Beds24.com booking page that does NOT have any languages enabled.
(An example would be https://www.beds24.com/amberhouse)
Et voila, the (normally English) Beds24.com booking page is displayed in French!
And, since Amber House has not yet enabled any languages, there are no flags visible at top left to switch back to the (Beds24.com booking page default) language of English!
Perhaps ALL Beds24.com booking pages should have a Union Flag in the top right position (even if they have no other language possibilities) to avoid this rare but awkward scenario?
Also, consider implementing hover text when the mouse cursor is positioned over a "language flag" - eg:
"klik voor vertaling in het Nederlands/ Dutch",
"Cliquez pour la traduction dans le Français/ French",
"klicken Sie für Übersetzung in Deutschen; German",
"scattisi per la traduzione in italiano/ Italian",
"przetłumaczyć na język polski/ Polish",
"esta le para a tradução no português/ Portuguese",
etc