tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post7370141609957719973..comments2024-03-20T22:57:03.923+00:00Comments on Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: If you're going to guess a user's context, get it right....Dean Bubleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719150957239368264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-23623309443639392732007-04-13T07:05:00.000+01:002007-04-13T07:05:00.000+01:00The web page of the airline company Swiss is anoth...The web page of the airline company Swiss is another bad example. I work from Europe but for a Canadian company. When at work the web page always redirects me to the Canadian version and offers me flights in Canadian dollars from Canadian airports. It usually takes me 5 minutes to persuade the site to find a Euro variant for me... The lesson: If you do something "smart" at least make sure the user can "un-smart" it easily :-) Otherwise, you might loose revenue.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-67716414739998513262007-04-12T08:02:00.000+01:002007-04-12T08:02:00.000+01:00I know that Blogger checks your UserAgent header a...I know that Blogger checks your UserAgent header and adapts accordingly - if you spoof the UA of a DoCoMo phone in Firefox for testing purposes and forget to change it back Blogger will ignore your Accept-Language header and switch your session to Japanese - and then you really are stuck unless you read Japanese or you delete all Blogger cookies...<BR/>Another unsafe assumption that all users of a Japanese phone must use Japanese; you have to ask why they don't just honour the Accept-Language header by default and provide a clear language-independent manual override button (flags or something).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-216810996993222202007-04-11T19:15:00.000+01:002007-04-11T19:15:00.000+01:00Once again I have to smile. Google has no idea "Wh...Once again I have to smile. Google has no idea "Who" you are or "Where" you are. So much for the current protocol and cookies.<BR/><BR/>Insufficient data to provide a really good experience.<BR/><BR/>PeterAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07858074897556111844noreply@blogger.com