Re: [Po4a-devel]New website?
Hi,
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Yves Rutschle wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:45:30PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
>>> The only remark is that it's a bit unfortunate that the site is english
>>> only. Is it temporarly, or by design? Ie, do you have idea about how to
>>> get it translated?
Damn, you people are going to want a working HTML po4a
module soon, aren't you? :)
I've done some small tests and it seems that the Xml module is currently
enough for our needs :)
>> Any idea on how/where to show the language-changing
interface? (links,
>> combo box...)
We've got little flags on our site (www.naryves.com), which
the CGI will only display if the current page is actually
translated. However:
It's okay if there's a small amount of languages, but it isn't well
scalable.
> The best would be to check the "Language-accepted"
field of http, or
> whatever its name is, and select this automatically. But that's a lot of
> work, maybe.
This is the best solution. With Apache, you essentially just
enable "MultiViews" for the DocumentRoot, then you rename
the pages as index.html.en, index.html.fr, etc... The
browser asks for 'index.html', along with specifing a
language through HTTP, Apache sees there is no index.html,
then looks up through the localised alternatives till it
finds one. This means that if you specified 'fr' and there
is no French translation, Apache goes on and just serves the
next language, so normally you never miss the page.
OTOH if MultiViews isn't enabled on alioth, we're in
trouble.
I haven't tried it, I've directly gone to (successfully) detect it in php.
I prefer having the control over these variables, and this way we don't
need duplicate files (index.html.*).
Regards,
Jordi Vilalta