[Wikipedia-l] Yet another portal page

[Till Westermayer]

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Hi Mark,

>Again, any browser-setting based redirect or even not a redirect
>but a simple "your language: xxx" notice suffers from problems I
>have already enumerated.

What is the problem with an "your language: German" according to my
browser settings and the possiblity for me to select "English",
"Alemmanisch" or even "Tagalog" in the list below? I don't understand
why this new proposal -- which is helpful in prominently showing a
language the user is understanding and using according to his/her
browser settings, but let's them decide if they want to use this or
another -- is dangerous. Looks to me more like a "oh, so no one will
edit the small languages anymore" issue.

Till

>Mark

>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:03:53 +0100 (MET), Alfio Puglisi
><puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
>>
>> Please now have a look at
>>
>> http://www.tommasoconforti.com/portal3.php
>>
>> (note the "3"). Only works with English, German, French and
>> Italian browser settings, to save on typing. Any errors are
>> Google translation fault:-))
>>
>> This version translates all the top banner and adds "Go" box
>> with text in your language, and a drop-down selection of the
>> available languages, with yours selected first. Try changing
>> your browser from en: to fr: or it:.
>>
>> If you change the language preference and reload, your browser
>> might retain the drop-down box selection (Firefox does), so you
>> won't see the new one automatically selected. In that case, try
>> clearing your cache (Firefox has a special cache for form data
>> that needs to be cleared).
>>
>> Strings are hard-coded inside the script. Moving them to an
>> external configuration file is not a problem.
>>
>> Alfio
>>
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