On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:32:20AM +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> > That the most popular Web server can't serve languages properly without
> > workarounds or special settings into the most popular Web browser sounds
> > bizarre. Is there any Apache documentation of this "feature"?
>
> Yes, it is called the HTTP 1.1 specification, and can be found at the
> World Wide Web Consortium, http://www.w3.org/
Which makes Apache no less guilty of being contrary to a huge amount of
people out there. Changing the servers requires a relatively small addition
in the code and a dozen apt-get upgrades; changing the clients requires
getting Microsoft to stop using broken default language settings in IE and
then get a few million users to upgrade. One would think that in the
interest of our users, the former would happen sooner than the latter, but
apparently not, and this sucks. :(
Not that I am any less responsible for things not going the way they should
go than any of us debian-www people, I'm just saying Robin's point of view
is reasonable and not something that should get him (her?) flamed.
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