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It certainly wasn't a mistake in the beginning, but it's certainly a mistake now.

• thaumasiotes 3mo ago
  It was a mistake in the beginning too. If you want to serve different content to different people, you use two different URLs. There's never a valid case for doing it while hiding it from the user.
  • sroussey 3mo ago
    No, that misses the whole point of content negotiation (for language, et al). In the age of search engines though, different urls are often perferable.
    • thaumasiotes 3mo ago
      > No, that misses the whole point of content negotiation (for language, et al). There's been some pushing for browsers to automatically decide what language you want to view a webpage in, and that is even more insane than the User-Agent header is. The correct solution for content that exists in multiple languages is to make each language available at its own URL. Just like I already said. Why in the world would you want to lose the option to select the language you want?