[thelist] Re: Language Detection vrs. Splash Screen

[Mike Combs]

Hi Kent,

Perhaps you could register the ".fr" version of the domain and allow French 
users to access that way.  Apache supports some mod rewrite commands that 
might be useful in this.

Overall, I prefer detecting the browser preference over having a splash 
screen.  But for users who don't know about it, you could have a 
English/French flag button that could override, or simply give them 
instructions on changing the browser preference.

At 02:03 PM 11/3/2003, you wrote:

>We do not want to default to English with the thinking that this might
>"offend" our French audience, for lack of a better word. So we have two
>options:
>
>1. A splash page with language choice/selection.
>2. Utilize a script to detect the default langauge set on the user's
>browser.