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That should not be the business of the site, but of the browser. It is precisely what Accept-Language is for. The site should respect the header, allowing circu
by lblume 1y ago
That should not be the business of the site, but of the browser. It is precisely what Accept-Language is for. The site should respect the header, allowing circumvention should be a very low accessibility priority.
- LoganDark 1y agoWhich browser, if any, even allows you to modify this header per-website?
- lblume 1y agoOne example is qutebrowser: https://qutebrowser.org/doc/help/settings.html#content.headers.custom https://qutebrowser.org/doc/help/settings.html#content.heade... I assume other developer-centric browsers have similar options.
- aembleton 1y agoFirefox with this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/accept-language-per-site/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/accept-langua...
- sgt 1y agoThe browser just looks at the system language. That may be US English, but you want to read the site in Spanish for example.
- lblume 1y agoIt defaults to it, but the preferred language can be changed in all major browsers, though currently not on a per-website basis.
- sgt 1y agoI am using Chrome and I have no idea how to change the browser language. I mean, I could probably find out.. digging into Preferences. That's a silly solution in any case, since you literally use the browser for other sites. Dozens of tabs.
- bmacho 1y agoThe site should respect explicit user actions. A get request to a /en/ domain, or a button click to a language icon should result changing to that language. Respecting implicit preferences that are more likely than not be just plain wrong anyways should be a very low priority, ideally shouldn't be done at all.