Re: content negotiation for language in web pages
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 02:23:20PM -0500, James A.Treacy wrote:
> > > 3. Similar to 2, but each language references the pages in its language,
> > > e.g. index.html.de would reference vendors.html.de . At the main
> > > page the user would get a language (either by content negotiation
> > > or by explicitly choosing the language by using one of the cross-links)
> > > and all links followed after that would be in that language.
> > > Someone jumping into a different page would have no idea other languages
> > > existed.
Hmm.. I still dislike the links referring .html.de,
but content negotiation does suck.. (not the idea, the
implementation)
If you do use links to .html.<lang>, the mirrors will
obtain those, and will not have .html -files. If a user
passes the url (by paper?) to another and makes a mistake,
or they assume "it's the usual" and type in an url with
.html, or use and url ending with /, they'll get an error.
My proposal is this:
Make all english pages have links with .html, all other language
pages .html.<lang>. Make each page have a footer with links to .html
.html.en .html.fr .html.de
That way, mirrors will pick up all the .html.<lang>s
and _also_ .html (the English version).
1. If a user references .html.<lang>, all will work as planned.
2. If he references .html, and the mirror does content-negotiation,
he will get the language he wants (and if that is not English he
will thereafter use the .html.<lang> links).
3. If he references .html, and the mirror does _not_ do negotiation,
he will get english with links on the bottom. He will click the
language he wants, see number 1.
4. If he references a directory, see #2 or #3.
It looks nice, and non-negotiating servers will still understand
index.html. And negotiating servers will serve the language you ask,
or default to English (.html).
I don't see _any_ cons, as I don't consider the minor waste of disk
space alarming.
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