Re: Localized Pages

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Calum Benson wrote:

> > I was thinking that the solution being discussed was one based on the
> > user's language preferences in the browser, i.e. when the user goes to
> > www.gnome.org his language preferences are detected in his browser by
> > the site, and the pages automatically served in his preferred language.
>
> Just as an aside, we had a discussion about doing automatic langauge
> detection for websites on the ACM CHI-WEB mailing list a while back-- it
> turns out that most people don't like it for various reasons, and would
> rather pick their language themselves from the webpage.

Would it be better if also a language selection dropdown-box was added 
to the front page? I'm just talking about the use of a smart default 
language; naturally it should still be overridable by the user, for 
example by a language selection box.


> I can probably post a pointer to the archived discussion, if anyone's
> interested...

Please do that, I'm interested :-)


Christian