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   http://www.ableinnovations.com/pdf/Content_Optimization_Tips_from_ABLE_Innovations.pdf
   http://www.ableinnovations.com/pdf/Content_Optimization_Tips_from_ABLE_Innovations.pdf
* representation of gestures like thumbs up (ok, like, or task completed?) can also be problematic, or have a variety of unrelated meanings in some regions.
    http://www.cracked.com/article_16335_7-innocent-gestures-that-can-get-you-killed-overseas.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbs_signal#International_usage
    http://www.oneskyapp.com/blog/facebooks-missing-thumb-may-just-design/
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153465


* Understand languages with challenges in using of future tense, and its affect how people might take current action in certain languages and regions.  This is especially useful for UI elements of the broswer like the "panic button"  where english "pushing the panic *will* delete your..." might get translated into the german "the panic button deletes your..."
* Understand languages with challenges in using of future tense, and its affect how people might take current action in certain languages and regions.  This is especially useful for UI elements of the broswer like the "panic button"  where english "pushing the panic *will* delete your..." might get translated into the german "the panic button deletes your..."
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