- From: Oskar Welzl <oskar.welzl@pan.at>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:36:44 +0100
- To: "Christian Wolfgang Hujer" <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
Christian, > - From the German page, he follows a link to another page with > the following > hotspot: > <a href="glossary" hreflang="de, en;q=0.8" title="Das Glossar">Glossar</a> > Now he should get glossary.de if it exists, glossary.en otherwise (user's > choice, overriding the user agent's configuration). Christian, if a german version of 'glossary' wouldn't exist, it would be a bad practice for the author of the linking document (star.de) to link to it, wouldn't it? in your example, there's no choice for the user. the user clicks on a link. he's not offered a menu or something. he wants the glossary. and he probably wants the glossary in german, because he starts from a german page using a german language link. i wonder why on earth hreflink should be so complicated all at once after it has existed for quite a while now and nobody ever thought of it as being in any way related to http-information. > I would normally not request the > user to change > his/her user agent's accept language settings, since most average > web users > would be swamped with tampering with their user agent's settings. most certainly we would not want our users to change their UA settings. the web works fine now without this, i get every language i want without ever changig anything. regards oskar
Received on Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:35:34 UTC