From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 18:48:19 CST
On 11/02/2005 23:58, Patrick Andries wrote:
> Doug Ewell a écrit :
>
>>
>> My question is, suppose I *want* to visit русский.com? Perhaps my
>> browser should alert me, but it must not prevent me from visiting the
>> site.
>>
>>
> I wonder whether the browser should alert the user if he has mentioned
> in his (HTTP) language preferences that, in practice, he does
> understand Russian (in this case). Using the Locale is too
> restrictive (only one locale at the time). Of course, a new set of
> Browser parameters could be supplied "script preferences", but is it
> really useful ?
>
But this is in fact not the right question. русский.com (the non-spoofed
one) may belong to a Russian multinational company with a multilingual
website. Or I might be relying on an automatic translation service like
Babelfish. Or the language preferences settings could be misleading,
e.g. if I am using someone else's computer or an Internet cafe. So I
could be wanting to visit this site even if I don't speak Russian, or
the computer doesn't know that I do. In such circumstances an occasional
alert might be acceptable, but not a general block.
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