On 7/4/01 2:24 PM, "Emlyn" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sut mae, Martin,
>
> It's good, and well-researched.
>
> (And, on reading it, I'm glad to find that most of the recommendations I made
> in 1995 still hold up:-) )
>
> Two points, though - is this the final version of the report? I couldn't find
> any reference to language selection with http 1.1's content negotiation
> features, via the use of the http_accept_language header, browser language
> settings, and/or cookies.
>
> Useful links on these are the Apache group's content negotiation page,
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html and a Slashdot
> discussion on multilingual web site design at
> http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/04/11/1249259_F.shtml
>
> Obviously, this only affects where the site visitor first arrives within the
> site structure, so doesn't really affect anything else in the report, but for
> completeness' sake it's worth mentioning.
>
> Secondly, you mention that the Welsh characters w^ and y^ aren't supported in
> the web; this is being fixed by the introduction of Unicode and its UTF-8
> subset as the standard for web development. UTF-8 is supported already by a
> lot of operating systems and browsers, allowing the use of these awkward
> characters. Of course this raises the issue of backwards compatibility in web
> site design...
>
>
> That apart, congratulations on an interesting and useful report.
>
> Cofion,
>
> Emlyn
>
> Emlyn
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Diolch Emlyn,
We intend to carry on by looking at the creation side of the business ( XML
and RTD ) and make recommendations vis a vis the back end of things. We
actually finnished our end last october but it has taken time to get all the
translation etc.
Martin
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