On Friday, September 09, 2016 12:50:51 PM DC* wrote:
> Effectively Github does *not* support Content-negotiation. If we don't want
> to adopt another strategy to serve pages we'll need to stay away from
> Github Pages.
> Otherwise we'll need to add links to access the site in different
> languages. Thus serving content from URLs such
> /{de,es,fr}/documentation.html or /documentation.html.{de,es,fr} (or
> similar format).
>
> If we use localized URLs (which most static site generators do support) the
> user would require to switch languages manually. We'll need also to request
> changes to the designs to add a language selection menu/selector.
> On the other side, we gain in terms of cost (Github pages hosting doesn't
> cost us) and time (we don't need to configure, patch, upgrade any server).
>
> I think we're better off with this option as money is always a concern and
> should be carefully handled.Hmm. Wasn't the whole point of re-designing the site to make it more appealing to users? Manually having to select the language certainly won't please them a lot :| Websites are an insanely popular thing, so there should be an insane amount of website hosters - do we really need to force ourselves to rely on one specific one = GitHub? :|
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