Re: hreflang

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"?

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.

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/

Received on Monday, 6 February 2006 11:05:05 UTC