- From: Mark Callow <callow_mark@hicorp.co.jp>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:05:29 +0900
On 02/04/2012 09:45, Steve Axthelm wrote:
> On 2012-03-30 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason to believe that this client-side solution would be
>> used significantly considering that the HTTP header has not been used
>> that much?
>
> Don't know about significantly, but I recently used the HTTP headers
> for a group of support pages that had many localizations and would
> have really liked to have been able to handle the entire logic for
> that on the front-end.
>
I would love it, if more sites would use these headers. As someone else
pointed out, some web servers make it very easy. I would support an
equivalent client-side query.
The current favourite algorithm among servers seems to be to serve a
language based on their perception of your current ___location. There are
so many reasons why this causes them to serve the wrong language, it is
beyond my understanding why so many sites do it. As a native English
speaker living in Japan, I suffer from it every day. The HTTP headers
provide a much better mechanism.
Regards
-Mark
Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:05:29 UTC