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"what I assume are the main navigation categories stretch leftward" That's about right. Another slightly better example is this site: http://www.stc.com.sa/cws

"what I assume are the main navigation categories stretch leftward" That's about right. Another slightly better example is this site: http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en If you click the text in Arabic at the top right, it shifts to the Arabic view, and all the text and navigation bars move to a position that's more appropriate for right to left reading.

thristian 16y ago
Wow, that really is a better example. Not only does the text and navigation change sides, and not only do the three adverts at the bottom swap around, but even the content in the ads moves.
sisirkoppaka 16y ago
Nice example! The whole page mirrors about - looks like the cultural factors(language) outweigh individual factors(handedness) in general.
pbhjpbhj 16y ago
>That's about right. Another slightly better example is this site: http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en >If you click the text in Arabic at the top right, it shifts to the Arabic view, and all the text and navigation bars move to a position that's more appropriate for right to left reading. The Aljazeera site does that (in reverse) for the English language version. They change the colour scheme too to orange (blues complement, don't know if that is significant). The English version looks more image intensive to me as well - perhaps their English language users have more bandwidth (or lower literacy? or ...).
- mhlakhani 16y ago
  > " The Aljazeera site does that (in reverse) for the English language version. They change the colour scheme too to orange (blues complement, don't know if that is significant). " The color schemes on the site match those of the TV channels, so that's where the blue/orange color change came about from. > " perhaps their English language users have more bandwidth " That's about right, bandwidth is still hard to get at good rates in the Middle East...

thristian 16y ago

Wow, that really is a better example. Not only does the text and navigation change sides, and not only do the three adverts at the bottom swap around, but even the content in the ads moves.

sisirkoppaka 16y ago

Nice example! The whole page mirrors about - looks like the cultural factors(language) outweigh individual factors(handedness) in general.

pbhjpbhj 16y ago

>That's about right. Another slightly better example is this site: http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en >If you click the text in Arabic at the top right, it shifts to the Arabic view, and all the text and navigation bars move to a position that's more appropriate for right to left reading. The Aljazeera site does that (in reverse) for the English language version. They change the colour scheme too to orange (blues complement, don't know if that is significant). The English version looks more image intensive to me as well - perhaps their English language users have more bandwidth (or lower literacy? or ...).

mhlakhani 16y ago
> " The Aljazeera site does that (in reverse) for the English language version. They change the colour scheme too to orange (blues complement, don't know if that is significant). " The color schemes on the site match those of the TV channels, so that's where the blue/orange color change came about from. > " perhaps their English language users have more bandwidth " That's about right, bandwidth is still hard to get at good rates in the Middle East...