- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:14:54 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren schreef: > > Quoting Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>: >>>> I disagree. Accept-Language would be one of the most important >>>> features of an user agent *if* it contained real information. >>> >>> It does. It is frequently used by websites such as hotmail, Google, >>> mozilla-europe.org and other large sites to present the user with a >> >> In the case of Google, this is sadly not true. I have all my >> browsers set to prefer English, and never get anything but >> google.se > > True, they match based on IP... When I'm on VPN (via Norway) I get > google.no all > the time. Not very helpful for a Dutch person who wants google.com. > "Fortunately" they have cookie-based settings as well. Ok, not Google then. But it is the case for my other two examples, hotmail and mozilla-europe. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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