- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:08:28 -0400
- To: Iain.URQUHART@LUX.DG13.cec.be
- CC: mduerst@enoshima, clift@freenet.msp.mn.us, www-international@w3.org
>Similarly, if the vendor knew I was in Luxembourg it could only show >me models of shoe that conform to official Grand Ducal footwear norms >and regulations, or it could give me the address of the local cobblers >providing technical support and so on. Localisation in this sense >lends competitive advantage. A long time ago now, I proposed adding some tags for locale-independent markup of measuremetns etc. so that browsers could display it in most appropriate manner. We had these in one of the early drafts too. I think such tags are still useful, but I also think we do need some way of profiling users, because there are a large number of things that can have an effect on prices, for example. Hasn't there been some work done on specifying user profiles in the PICS effort?
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