On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Dave Close wrote: > I presume such a > variable might arrive as an environment variable at the web server, > similar to the way the user-agent string arrives today.
This technology already exists today, and absolutely nobody ever uses it, near as I can tell. If you look at your default apache install, it probably has about 30 "index.html" files in its default documentation directory, so that it can give you the language-you-prefer. But the fundamental problem with your solution is that it puts a somewhat large burden on getting to the content. The SERVER must be configured to support this crazy maze of various language-specific versions of each file. The CLIENT must similarly be configured to know what to ask for. Or, the web site can just have a very simple, mostly-universal pictogram to help you find your way to where you can change your language on your own. Me? I'll choose the latter, and so have the masses. If the masses wanted the former, Apache's been capable of doing it since 2.0, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually do so. D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
