Hello, At Wednesday 29 December 2010 22:10:53 DaB. wrote: > the problem is, that one wants to give consistent links to others. When > you're not able to give a link, which points to the same page (in the > same language), thats not very user friendly I think. Of course the > header field should be used when toolserver.org or www.toolserver.org is > the host and may redirect to en.toolserver.org or de.toolserver.org > regarding to the language preferences.
yes, that's the problem, but the way arround. If I give a link like http://en.toolserver.org/~auser/atool.php to another user the GUI will be in english – no matter if the user speaks english, his accept-header is english or anything. Also the way to specify the language in a third-level-domain is VERY uncommon (wikipedia does it and a few hardware-sellers like IBM or dell) – the users are accustomed to change the first-level-domain (google.de for german google, google.fr for french google, google.it for italian etc. pp.). > > Another point: I'm sure 99% of internet users don't know about this > browser setting and of the rest a high percentage will not be able to > change it. You know it, I know it, but my mother don't know. sure, and what is the first thing you do after you installed a browser for a non-interrested user like your mother? You install a language pack, so the browser's GUI is for example in german – and that also (at least in firefox) sets the accept-header correct. > > Using this field gives you a a good standard language, but language > switching is necessary too. You still can use a parameter for that, if you really like. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885
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