- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 16:36:28 +0100
- To: (wrong string) ürst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- CC: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>, "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Martin J. Dürst wrote: > > What commercial systems > > deploy with built in support for variant handling? > > I don't know many commercial web servers. But definitely > DynaWeb or what the server from INSO is called does, and > goes to extremely great detail. Also, Apache deploys with > built in support for variant handling. Apache is not, of course, "commercial" in the sense that Yaron probably meant - the fact that many, many commercial sites use it is probably considered irrelevant. However, I fail to see that "commercial" has any bearing whatsoever on the issue. > > How many people use those systems? > > More and more. They haven't been around for such a long time, > and it takes time for people to realize that these things are > supported, and to learn how to use them. Variant support in Apache is certainly sufficiently widely used that we have had to work on it several times over the years. > > How many web sites use variants as opposed to > > having a "choose English here" tag? > > See above. And the "choose English here" tag is not a definite > indication that server-side variant support is not used. Both > are necessary in a transitory phase. Some sites actually use both - you get the language you prefer by default, but can force a different one by choosing the appropriate language link (see www.iigs.org, for example - quite a cute trick, I thought). Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie |Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435|Apache Group member Freelance Consultant |Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472|http://www.apache.org and Technical Director|Email: ben@algroup.co.uk |Apache-SSL author A.L. Digital Ltd, |http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL London, England. |"Apache: TDG" http://www.ora.com/catalog/apache
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