Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:46:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Select a server near you menu Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970429080945.11482B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <l03010d02af8b669a0aa2@[194.45.188.81]>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Or, even better, have the two menus and a single "Go", and have the CGI > figure out the best location? (Assuming that non-English pages can be > available at more than one server.) How do you resolve a conflict between the language and mirror setting? It isn't obvious from the interface that conflicts are possible. Second, different users will have different preferences for how such a conflict should be resolved. You have to give the user a way to specify preferred resolution at which point you have a complex interface that achieves exactly the same result as the single mirror list. -john
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