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When I order from amazon.co.uk to Finland, often items get delivered from their German warehouse, so it seems that something like this does happen, at least in
by bencoder 14y ago
When I order from amazon.co.uk to Finland, often items get delivered from their German warehouse, so it seems that something like this does happen, at least in Europe.
But I agree it would be nice when I'm linked to amazon.com to easily be able to see that the same item is available from one of the european sites. As it is I have to manually check.
The lack of region/language differentiation is something that bothers me a lot from a lot of websites. As an English speaker currently living in Finland, I often change the language to English on a particular site, only to be redirected to the UK regional site which has different information that is not useful to me.
- DougWebb 14y agoAt my previous job I was responsible for the i18n of our globally-used web app. The problem came down to a choice: follow the HTTP standard and pay attention to the request header the browser sends that specifies its language setting, or ignore the browser and maintain a user configuration setting in our app. We chose the latter, which worked much better: users could choose a language from a dropdown at any time, and we remembered that choice across sessions. (They had to log in to the webapp so we knew who they were, but we also set a cookie so most of the time the login page was the right language too.) I guess the other choice we made was to support any language through the same codebase, rather than a separate codebase/deployment per language. A lot of websites do the latter, which means that if you go to a country-specific site you're stuck with the language used for that site. Bad design; I think there are few places left in the world where a region only has one language in common use anymore... at least among people who use the internet.