Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] hrefTranslate attribute (#301)

Thanks for the response, @dtapuska. I'll admit, I'm still a little concerned.

The web fundamentally works by the user expressing their preferences through a user agent. (I tell my browser that I want sites in French.)  The user agent then negotiates with sites accordingly.

If I (or my UA) has set some preferences with a search engine, for example, ("I'd like my Google results to be displayed in French") -- that is still a relationship I have with that site.  The same origin policy is another expression of this mentality; I have told this site something about me that I don't expect it would (or could) share with another.

To explicitly expect this search engine to tell the site I'm clicking on that I'm probably going to want the site in French -- isn't how the web works. It's a violation of my deal with the search engine (since it is leaking information about me) and prevents my user agent from doing its job -- which is to tell that second site how I'd like the content.

Have I misunderstood what you're trying to do here? 

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