RE: Authoring Techniques Document

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Richard Ishida wrote:

> > > 4. No mention is made of the technique of using <link
> > rel="alternate"
> > > hreflang="xx" ...
> > >
> > > The link element is now widely implemented in browsers (Internet
> > > Explorer and Safari are the only two reasonably well-known browsers
> > > that don't implement it), and as a backup for language negotitation
> > > (analagous to including charset
> > > metadata) it seems worthwhile. It would also enable easier
>
> I just implemented this for the following pages:
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-lang-neg.fr
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-lang-neg.en
>
> I see that in Firebird at the bottom of my screen it now says "More".
> Clicking on that pops up "Other versions >", and clicking on that pops up
....
> I don't see any support in my latest versions of Mozilla or Netscape (other
> than looking in the Page Info - which is not very helpful). Nor in Opera.

  Actually, Mozilla (1.6) supports it. If there are '<link
rel="xxxx"...>'s, Mozilla adds just above the page rendering area a new
menu bar(?) consisting of 'Top Up First Previous Next Last Document More'.

  Jungshik

Received on Friday, 30 April 2004 08:39:45 UTC