Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies

Jochem Maas wrote: > tedd wrote: >> At 9:37 AM -0400 11/27/07, Jeff Benetti wrote: >>> Any any and all comments are welcome, it will be a learning curve no >>> matter >>> which route I take so a little advice on the best direction pros cons >>> would >>> be great. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jeff >> Jeff: >> >> If it were me, I wouldn't use any problematic browser detects schemes >> (they don't work) or any of that high-thought stuff -- it's beyond me. > > whether it's beyond you or not only you can judge, but I disagree that it's > problematic. I should note that I recommend using browser language preference > detection (as per my previous post) as a means to initially select a [hopefully] > suitable language BUT that this should be done in addition to offer the user > an explicit mechanism for language selection. +1 on that strategy. May as well at least *try* to take an initial educated guess!! Col