L10N Problem with website!
Hi, I am sure it has been mentioned before but incase it has not I thought I should mention. I am one of the unfortunates who had to purchase my laptop very quickly and did so in Spain and thus have a Spanish OS but I like to browse the web in English because it is my native language, however your website when selecting a language you wish to view the site indoes not keep this setting as default, for example when you click on a link it accepts the default language setting of the browser and immediately throws back to Spanish (for me). There are many easy ways to get around this, I have now changed my browser language to English which works, but I think that the user should always be given a choice. It is nice that the default language of the browser is detected but I think that that should only be a constant on the home page (if even that). Even though my situation represents a tiny portion of the people who visit your site I think it is a bad idea because my immediate reaction was what the hell?I know that this can be changed veryeasilyas I did the same for one ofthe sites I developed. Regards, Michael
Re: L10N Problem with website!
Michael Quinn (Solanon): however your website when selecting a language you wish to view the site in does not keep this setting as default, No, that is a browser-side setting, please see URL:http://www.debian.org/intro/cn for more information. The OS language does not play any part in this, except maybe for being the default value if you don't change it yourself. Hope this helps, -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments.
Re: L10N Problem with website!
Hello, but my point was that if one purchases a OS in a particular language than the default language (for browser) will be that of the OS, Yes, of course. It's sensible. But if you don't like the language, all you have to do is to change it. I have machine with both Norwegian and English OSes, but I have all of them set to request Swedish pages (and several other languages I understand). Doing this selection in the browser rather than on the web site serves several purposes: 1. It is universal, you don't need to set up each web site specifically. 2. It is specific, you can have different browsers set up differently. 3. It is easy, language selection via requested languages is a built-in feature in Apache, doing it in another way would require scripting and cookies. I look at the language setting in the browser and it is very nice to see where different people come from and if everybody or many people changed the language setting in their browser this info would be more innacurate than it currently is You seem to be confusing languages and countries. That's quite common, but it's still wrong. rather than storing that choice as a constant it defaults back by looking at your browser setting which is kind of annoying It can be, at first, but it is better than all other solutions. There's a fourth point to the list above that it adds: You can select *several* languages in you wanted list. I have mine set up to request sv,nb,no,da,nn,en,de (Swedish, Norwegian bokmål, general Norwegian, Danish, Norwegian nynorsk, English, German, in that order). This means that when a page is not available in my preferred language it falls back to another one. If I can't read that, I may manually select the English version, but that doesn't mean I want all pages in English. because not everybody is a web programmer or knows how the site gets this data. That's exactly why we have a help page linked from every page on the site which is available in at least two languages. If you have any ideas on how to improve it, feel free to suggest them. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments.
Re: Who's using Debian?
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Broken link on mirrors page
http://www.debian.org/mirror/ has a broken link (near the bottom of the page): http://people.debian.org/~md/mirrors-list.txt HTH, -- Dave Isa. 40:31
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Who's using Debian?
To Whom It May Concern, Our company is listed on your web pages as being a user of Debian. We would like to be removed from this list ASAP. Feel free to contact me to verify this action. Please send a note to me when SLE is off the list. The listing is on the web page at: http://www.debian.org/users/#SiliconLogic Thank you for helping! Regards, Steve -- Steve Phillips Phone: (715) 830-1200 x109 Silicon Logic Engineering, Inc. FAX: (715) 830-1887 7 South Dewey StreetMailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eau Claire, WI 54701Web: http://www.siliconlogic.com
Re: Who's using Debian?
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:42:44PM -0600, Steve Phillips wrote: To Whom It May Concern, Our company is listed on your web pages as being a user of Debian. We would like to be removed from this list ASAP. Feel free to contact me to verify this action. Please send a note to me when SLE is off the list. The listing is on the web page at: http://www.debian.org/users/#SiliconLogic It would be fine to know why did they resign from Debian. It would be interesting information I guess. I won't contact with them because I'm not developer, but hopefully someone will do it. regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 _|_|_32-050 Skawina - Głowackiego 3/15 - w. małopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48501608340 | ICQ:46704720 | GG:726362 | IRC:fEnIo ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RLU:172001 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [PATCH] Standards and Quirks Modes
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:19, Alexander Winston wrote: The Debian Web pages all use the document type declaration '!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN,' which, while not invalid, is considered bad form and fails to trigger standards compliance mode in Internet Explorer and Mozilla (Gecko, really) derivatives. I have attached a patch that modifies the DOCTYPE to include the actual DTD location. For more information regarding DTD switching and quirks mode, see the articles Fix Your Site with the Right DOCTYPE! URI:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/ and Mozilla's Quirks Mode URI:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/. __ Could I please receive a show of hands or some comments from the Debian Web site developers? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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