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[WWW-HTML Mailing List Archive Home] [Messages By Thread] [Messages By Date] Re: hreflang
From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:33:30 +0100 Message-ID: <43E5FEAA.6050403@students.cs.uu.nl> To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> Cc: www-html@w3.org Jukka K. Korpela schreef: > (And the hreflang attribute probably always remains useless. > Personally, I use it sometimes - as a documentation for myself mostly. I style it as e.g. a [fr] next to the link. This is convenient because while in an English text, I can warn my English readers in advance that the link they are about to follow is in French. > But it's actually worse than useless when it is incorrect. And the > destination of a link _may_ change language - perhaps switching to a > language-negotiated version - without notifying people who link to it.) Well, I suppose thatā??s what the new definition of hreflang is trying to avoid. Although Iā??m not sure thatā??s a good idea; Iā??d say the visitor would obviously prefer the link to be in a language he understands. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.Received on Sunday, 5 February 2006 13:35:34 GMT |
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