- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:14:09 +0100 (CET)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 20 Mar, Jesper Tverskov wrote: > The reason is obvious if you go to those web sites. The welcome page > where you most choose language makes the web site look more important > and more official. The reason *is* obvious. None of them know that HTTP exist, much less the Accept-Language header. Harsh, perhaps, but sadly true. If I set my UA to request resources in English, I have allready made a choice; an *explicit* choice, that if the resource exist in English I *want* it in English. Feel free to just look at the header on the entry-page and offer me links to alternative versions, but do for every deity's sake LOOK at the accept-language - it's there to make life easier for *users*; to make information *more* accessible. The user makes the choice. It's what the accept-language header is there *for*. And, please, using the accept-language header is no more a privacy problem than is walking into the local tobacconist and ordering The Times in English. The proprietor can no more identify me from that than from my choice in newspaper. -- - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ [+46] 0708 557 905
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