[Wikipedia-l] Yet another portal page

Mon Jan 10 18:45:54 UTC 2005

Again, any browser-setting based redirect or even not a redirect but a
simple "your language: xxx" notice suffers from problems I have
already enumerated.

Mark

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:03:53 +0100 (MET), Alfio Puglisi
<puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
> 
> Please now have a look at
> 
> http://www.tommasoconforti.com/portal3.php
> 
> (note the "3"). Only works with English, German, French and Italian
> browser settings, to save on typing. Any errors are Google translation fault:-))
> 
> This version translates all the top banner and adds "Go" box with text in
> your language, and a drop-down selection of the available languages, with
> yours selected first. Try changing your browser from en: to fr: or it:.
> 
> If you change the language preference and reload, your browser might
> retain the drop-down box selection (Firefox does), so you won't see the
> new one automatically selected. In that case, try clearing your cache
> (Firefox has a special cache for form data that needs to be cleared).
> 
> Strings are hard-coded inside the script. Moving them to an
> external configuration file is not a problem.
> 
> Alfio
> 
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