On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:20:29AM +0100, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: > > If you prefer to view webpages in english rather than in italian, you > > should configure you browser to ask the pages in that order : > > "Accept-Language: en, it". > > Yeah I know that. However, I may want to view *most* pages in italian, but > this one in English (I usually don't trust italian translations of > software-related stuff),
"Hopefully" for you not that many websites use content-negociation, you may try this configuration and/or provide patches to debian-l10n-italian :-) > and as I said, it's great that by default the > server delivers me the italian version respecting my general preference, but > forcing manually the language *once* should be sufficient. And it *can* be > done statically by having english pages link to english pages etc. If you would do that : - people would always see "localized" links, so thay would use and bookmark them, leading the content-negociation mecanism to be no more used, since "non localized" links would never be displayed. Example: * at time 0, a given page A is not localized. Because the user follows english pages, the displayed url is .en.html. He links to this url .en.html from his tutorial B. * at time 1, the given page A is translated. => A user that follows page B will not be directed to a localized version of page A. - you would have to rebuild all pages containing a link to a page that has just been translated. I don't see any correct solution to that problem :/ > Let's see it this way. Either you think that manual selection of language is > unnecessary because there exists a browser configuration setting that does > the job, in which case why are you providing manual language selection. In the case you would like to display a specific page in a specific language. > you do think that manual language selection is necessary, then it must work > fine. And having it switch again to default at every link-clicking, is imho > quite an handicap. Actually, I think that like multiple-css-choices, it would be the role of the browser to allow specifying a specific language for a given navigation tab. Maybe : Quick Locale Switcher: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1333/ Best regards, -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
