On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:09:23AM +0200, NAGY Viktor wrote: > Jens Seidel wrote: > > > >It was already suggested multiple times to remember users choice of > >the selected language. There where also some suggestions to a possible > >implementation such as using cookies. Don't know about the status. > > > >Please note that Debian's website has currently a few contraints such > >as using only static content (no javascript, ...) and allows also > >mirroring of the content ... > > These constraints are quite strict. Are there any website statistics > which prove that it's really worth to maintain website mirrors and give > up using server-side dynamic content?
There's no statistics, but we're not going to give up our mirrors up when many of the things that can be done server-side could be done client-side. Actually right now we are not doing redirection to users based on their IP->Geographic location mapping, but we could easily do that on the server side for www.debian.org if the needs arises. In any case, I'm not opposed to fancy language-selection using JavaScript and cookies for those users that are incapable of setting up content-negotiation in their browsers. Which is something actually surprisingly common (and *sooo* easy to fix by the users' themselves...) Yes, I know what Jens said: "no Javascript is a requirement" but I think he actually meant "Javascript should not be a requirement to access content as that would make it inaccesible for text browsers" (for example, Javascript-based menus should be ruled out) and not "Javascript should not be used anywhere at the site". Javascript+cookie language "selection" in *addition* to content negotiation would be, IMHO, OK if properly implemented. Regards Javier
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