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Imagine if the first time you opened your browser it had a big grid of flags/languages to choose from. This would be trivial to get users the right Accept-Langu
by nv-vn 10y ago
Imagine if the first time you opened your browser it had a big grid of flags/languages to choose from. This would be trivial to get users the right Accept-Language. You could even have it do this every time you open the browser if the computer is used by multiple people.
- spacehunt 10y agoYou are assuming the site would remember what language the users have told it to use. YouTube, even after all these years, forgets this every 3 days, even when I'm still logged in. But it doesn't forget what ads to shove to me though.
- int_19h 10y agoThe site wouldn't have to remember. It would get an Accept-Language header in every request, and should just use that.
- spacehunt 10y agoWhich is still the wrong way to go about it, unless the browser lets users easily set this per site, like how some browsers did for text encoding.
- int_19h 10y agoIt's the right way to pick the default even now. Websites can still provide language selection. Although, yes, it would be better if there was a way to define Accept-Language on a per-domain basis (including wildcards).