On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
The top selling item of the top bookseller on the planet is a portable book reading device. I'm sure all those people just buy a costly dedicated device to go and read books on desktop PCs they already owned.
But it's not a cellphone, and we shouldn't be using the same HTML for it and a desktop.
if your aesthetic preferences are at variance with the TEI defaults,
And I told you then, and I'll tell you again, it's not my aesthetic preferences, it's the standard way to do title pages for the last few centuries. And nobody changes the defaults, so they must look decent out of the box.
Even if you were right, you were still wrong; you let such issues derail TEI, instead of working with people to achieve something they would be willing to use, even if it isn't an exact fit to your tastes.
If I'm right, then I'm right. Period. What devious logic do they use on the planet you come from?
On my planet, they invent something called the compromise, to let people who don't agree on what's right continue to work together. People who fail to achieve their goals because they fail to compromise are wrong. Metric and 110 voltage may be the right standards, but if you refuse to convert to Imperial units and 220 voltage for those markets, you're the one who's wrong.
And again, when I go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer and click on the link at the bottom, it comes up to http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74 ... in German. Is this another it works right for Marcello?
Yes. If you configure your browser so that none of the languages you accept is available, it will send a random language. (I think it chooses in alphabetical order, which happens to be: de, en, es, fr, it.)
So, despite the fact that we have 37 times as many books in English instead of German, it defaults to German?
If you prefer English over a random language then why don't you configure your browser so?
I did; I always have. Right now I'm sending "en-us,en;q=0.8,eo;q=0.5,de;q=0.3".
You are like that woman at DP that complained that the site sent her a date in Inuktitut. Even though she had actually configured Inuktitut as her preferred language!
I suppose the concept that a webpage should be in one language if possible is beyond you. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.