- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:12:55 +1100
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Steven Pemberton wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> 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. > > Yes, this is one of the deficiencies of URLs: although there may be > several representations of a resource at a URL, there is no standardised > way of identifying any particular one. Then, it seems that you are attempting to solve this issue at the wrong level. As you point out, there is no standard for this in URIs, yet you're attempting to solve this limitation at the markup level and introducing more problems with it; and who knows where/when you expect those to be solved. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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