On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 18:28 +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > On 2005-08-18T17:19:14+0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The release notes will be ready for translation on August 31st, > > giving you one week for translation before the release on September > > 7th. > > I just wonder if any of you have heard about HTTP content negotiation?
Yeah, that could be nice, but it's really an issue for the gnome-web-list. Right now, I'm more concerned with actually generating the content in the first place. > Content negotiation is a way for the web browser to send accepted > languages in a HTTP request and get the best translation (according to > user's preferences) as return. For example Debian's website uses this > technique, and you can read more at > <URL: http://www.debian.org/intro/cn > > > Of course there are some proxies et cetera in wild which have broken > support for this technique, and therefore sometimes at least Debian > gets feedback because of badly configured browsers or broken proxy > servers, but IMHO the technique works well. > > As a translator this is interesting question for me because having a > link "http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/"; select language > automatically would increase visibility of translations as users no > longer need to manually select translation every time. > > To use such technique, the pages need to be named in a way that HTTP > server's content negotiation module understands those to be same page, > and content negotiation module loaded -- that should be enough. > > In Apache it would mean that when english page is notes/index.html, > then Finnish translation is index.fi.html (or index.html.fi depending > on some settings), and French translation is index.fr.html (or > index.html.fr). Then user accesses URL http://www.g.o/s/2.12/notes/ or > .../notes/index and gets version of the page according to his/her > browser settings. (Technically it sends Accept-Language header in HTTP > request.) -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
