On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last night I was discussing this with Finne (henna), and she proposed > that we might show a default list based on the user's most likely > language(s), while still keeping the others collapsed by default. > > This could be done using the HTTP accept-language header—which would, > at the very least, show you your native language.  (And perhaps, if > someone's feeling adventurous, augment that using a GeoIP system. > There are lots of possibilities.)
This is a good idea. It could be easily done in JavaScript without affecting cacheability, at least if you just use language info available to JS. (The collapsing is only done using JS to begin with.) But the content language in the browser is often unreliable, I've been told, so it's not a complete solution. Geolocation would be more reliable -- especially if we can pick the most likely few languages to display -- but much harder to implement properly. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
