- From: Stefan Schumacher <stefan@duckflight.de>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:52:13 +0200
- To: w3c-translators@w3.org
Hello Alexander! Hello translators! In my opinion this attribute would only make sense in the translations, if the browser would show the user the given language information in some way. So that he could see, if there is a link to an already translated document or to the original. But the contents of the link/document should already say that. Question: Youīre not allowed to change a link in the reference section to point to a translated document, arenīt you? You have to make a comment that is different in style below the original link (or something like that) to show, that it is a comment. So the user knows from the content what language he could expect, if he follows a link. Does any browser recognize the hreflang attribute and if it does, what action does it take? Are there any search bots, that search for documents in a certain language and would take advantage of the attribute, so that it would be justified to use it? Well, itīs bedtime! ;-) Happy working, Stefan On 24 Apr 2002 at 23:13, Alexander Savenkov wrote: > Hello translators, > What do you think about indicating the target language of a link in a > translated document via the hreflang attibute? > > For example: > <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" width="72" > src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" /></a></p> > > will become: > <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/" hreflang="en"><img alt="W3C" > height="48" width="72" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" > /></a></p> in the translated version. > > This is quite simple to accomplish and at the same time appears to be > almost useless in today's browsers. > > Happy translating. > --- > Alexander Savenkov http://www.thecroll.com/ > w3@hotbox.ru http://croll.da.ru/ > -- Stefan Schumacher Oesterberg 20 0172/2718968 58553 Halver 02353/130119 Germany www.schumacher-netz.de
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