- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:58:28 +0200
- To: w3c-translators@w3.org
Alexey <mainpart@211.ru> wrote: > why when i'm trying to open normative version of doc, i'm redirecting > to > tranlation? > http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS-vs-XSL I've disabled the language negotiation for that document. You should now get English. More details: For some documents on the W3C site the server performs "language negotiation," that means it doesn't just return the English document, but looks at the language of the user and tries to return a translation immediately if available. Many browsers allow you to configure the language or languages that you prefer, but by default the browser sends the language of its own user interface. Clearly, Alexey's browser tells the W3C server that Russian is preferred over English. Concretely, if the English original is called http://www.w3.org/foo.html then the URL http://www.w3.org/foo (without .html) is the negotiated document. Negotiation is only enabled for certain stable documents, such as tutorials. For other documents the shorter URL simply returns the English version. This of course requires that any translated document contains a link to the original *with* the .html. Otherwise you will be redirected right back to the translation when you try to see the original. That is the case with the Russian translation of "CSS & XSL." It says the English original is at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS-vs-XSL but that is the *negotiated* document, not the English one. Or it was until this morning. I have disabled language negotiation for that document. I've written the same explanation with different words in http://www.w3.org/Style/translating#langneg Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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