Only its coder knows for sure.

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Clicking on a link brings you to a distinct page. Everybody knows that, and frankly, nobody cares (nor should they). It's when links are broken, when the graphic doesn't appear as we'd expected, when we scratch our heads and ask "how did I get here?", that we question what's going on. Thus, if I intend to change the internal linking of a site such that a click on the link to the page in English (on the Hebrew page), or vice versa, instead of being linked to a specific URL (and thus distinct on each page) will instead be a link to an identical simple line of Javascript that figures out the desired URL and then brings the reader to it, nobody except me will really care. For me it's an exercise in streamlining (and a test of my limited abilities), and only if I make a mistake will anyone really notice.

Then again, there's also a bit of cosmetic surgery that's perhaps called for. Until recently that site had an opening page in Hebrew, and an opening page in English, but didn't have a main, bi-lingual, opening page from which a reader could choose his or her preferred language. I'd felt the need for this for quite a while, and only when I'd decided that I was finishing my work on the site, did I make that necessary change. But now that a main, bi-lingual, page exists, I'll have to decide whether I want to link to it from each page in that site. So there's still work to be done.

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