> From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 5:46 AM > > "William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: > > > > The .msi installer package I'm working up can tweak whatever > > we need, but we have a big issue with index.html.en ... I can't > > simply resolve a shortcut since win32 doesn't like .en files. > > What doesn't it like about them? I'd rather try to deal with > this than warp everything else.. If possible.
Were it so simple. Here's the underlying issue... I'm led to believe users should _Always_ be able to read the docs on the local hard drive? This is why we run that expand.pl when rolling the release tarball, delete the FAQ-x.html, and download the interpreted FAQ.html from locus. [Rolling the Release Tarball on dev.apache.org] We have two issues, today. In order for most browsers to recognize the document type stored on a local drive, they must contain the META tags for content-type/content-language, since there is not necessarily an apache server to help them out. I believe the extra two lines per doc aren't necessarily a bad thing anyway for our internal documentation. The second issue is on file-extension based clients such as ms. We _could_ add identifiers for each and every known Apache multiview file type, (at least those in our docs), but I really, really think this is excessive. OTOH, we could copy the index.html.foo encoding to index.html, but this is equally bad, since it breaks Apache's multiviews when the user requests /index.html and the browser finds it without the encoding pass. The last issue with local docs is that all the hyperlinks are broken, no matter what, unless we rewrite them. E.g. the index.html doesn't go anywhere when we have index.html.en and index.html.ja.jis. Perhaps, expand.pl needs to be rewritten, not the names of the files, based on a language arg - it goes out and 'fixes' the links. Again, this breaks the Apache-served web. On the good news front, these browsers like the following: Netscape 4.6 file:///d:/live/apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/index.html.en Mozilla Seamonkey M18 file:///d|/live/apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/index.html.en Microsoft 5.0 d:\live\apache-1.3\htdocs\manual\index.html.en So without much help, they have a clue. The hardest part really is the shortcuts and links. E.g. double clicking FAQ.html.en [when we get that far] will pop up ugly "Open this file with..." dialogs. Double clicking FAQ.html.en does not, while FAQ.en.html would open without a problem. And again, the link to the index.html page is broken. AARGH! New suggestions from me later :-/ Bill
