From owner-freebsd-www Tue Apr 29 06:50:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA17142 for www-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schubert.promo.de (schubert.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA17137 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [194.45.188.81] (stefan.Promo.DE [194.45.188.81]) by schubert.promo.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA05720; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:46:05 +0200 X-Sender: stefan@mail.promo.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:48:51 +0200 To: John Fieber From: Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: Select a server near you menu Cc: www@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 15:46 Uhr +0200 29.04.1997, John Fieber wrote: >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 -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-0 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/