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by ncbutters 5748 days ago
Yeah I think this point has a parallel in #6 referring to placing important content on the left of a web page...

"...for sites that are traditionally read from left to right, placing important design components at the left is a good idea; vice versa for sites whose language is read from right to left."

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Number 6 had me imagining an extreme test case. All the content of a page is in a narrow vertical column over at the right of a page. Show me a heatmap of that test page with real users still spending most all of their time looking at the big blank space at the left and... well I'll eat one of these pencils on my desk I guess, as I have no hat I wish to part with.
That quote got me thinking, though, about the question they did not answer:

What about languages that are read top-to-bottom first?