- From: Oskar Welzl <lists@welzl.info>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:08:13 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Am Montag, den 06.02.2006, 22:04 +1100 schrieb Lachlan Hunt:
> Steven Pemberton wrote:
> > but if you want to supply an explicit link to a language version, you
> > can include the attribute:
> >
> > <a href="report" hreflang="nl">The report in Dutch</a>
> >
> > I would call this the best of both worlds. It means, for instance, that
> > someone whose preferred language is not Dutch, but who can nevertheless
> > speak Dutch, can get to the Dutch version (for instance to check the
> > translation).
>
> Is this not better handled by having the langauge as part of the URI,
> such as "report.nl" or "/nl/report"?
It is. C1 in my original post ;-))
("It's superfluous.")
>
> With the hreflang method, if a user (who's browser preferences don't
> include nl as a preferred language) bookmarks the page or copies and
> pastes the URI and then tries to return to the page later, they may not
> receive the the nl version.
>
Good point.. Not beeing able to return to the same document only because
you dont click the original link isnt exactly a good user experience.
Regards,
Oskar
Received on Monday, 6 February 2006 12:06:28 UTC