- From: Clover Andrew <aclover@1value.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:14:51 +0200
- To: <www-talk@w3.org>
Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org> wrote: > Most search engines seem to see only the English version. Yes, search engines cannot enumerate the other-language-versions provided purely by content negotiation; they'd have to send a different Accept-Language header for each possible language to each possible page to do it, which is a bit unwieldy. You could use <link rel="alternate" lang=".." href="..."> in the <head> of the negotiated document to give direct links to versions of the page that do not depend on content negotiation (ie. the .de (usw.) files in Apache mod_negotiation's implementation). Alternatively or additionally, include direct links to these as part of the navigation on every page. This is probably also helpful to users who haven't got their browsers set up correctly, and people who are themselves multilingual. BTW. unrelated grammarak point - why is it 'alternate', and 'alternate stylesheet'? Unless it's a confusing US-English thing, I'd have thought 'alternative' the right word. Or maybe the UA is indeed supposed to switch between the two settings every time the page is reloaded? :-) -- Andrew Clover Technical Consultant 1VALUE.com AG
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