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Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 11/01/07 08:55
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Bernhard Sturm:
>
>> I use FF. Which button would bring me to the top of a page? 'Home'
>> doesn't work,
>
> It works in typical situations. If you have an untypical situation, you
> should find out what works there - if you think that it is important to
> be able to get to the start of a page quickly. After all, other sites
> don't have the same kind of button as yours, and most of them (wisely)
> don't have any "to top" button.
It didn't work on your page where you suggest to use the home button:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/totop.html
Does it work with your browser?
It works for:
- Safari 3.0.3
- IE 6.02
- Opera 9.01
- Lynx
But _not_ in FF 2.0.0.8 and of course never on Apple keyboards where the
'Home' button is missing.
So this is not exactly a valid cross-brower approach to rely solely on
the hope that the UA has implemented this feature.
>>> P.S. Do you use browser-sniffing? That's a problem, too. I get
>>> different results (e.g. in date formats) when accessing the page on
>>> IE and on Lynx.
>> No, no browser sniffing... Server side I use the LocaleIDs of the UA
>> via ASP (ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")) in order to format
>> date stamps. But I believe it is not correctly working.
>
> The very idea is incorrect. When your page is in German, the dates in
> its content should follow whatever conventions you regard as applicable
> to the German language. The browser settings in a visitor's browser are
> irrelevant. Specifically, check what the Accept-Language request header
> is for. It is for selecting among different language versions of a page
> (when the same content exists in different languages). It is not meant
> for mixing, say, Chinese or Arabic or Finnish date notations into the
> content of a page in German.
But the page in question is in 4 different languages available (have you
noticed the language selector?). Hence the use of HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE.
But I might drop the concept anyway, as it is not working correctly.
Cheers
Bernhard
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