From owner-freebsd-www Tue Apr 29 06:46:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA16866 for www-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA16861 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA12534; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:46:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:46:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber Reply-To: John Fieber To: Stefan Bethke cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Select a server near you menu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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