> But here is one I18N page which doesn't follow this advice, and thus
> causing problems: http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n
Leif,
Most of this email appears to be about
http://www.w3.org/International/tools rather than
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n
Are you experiencing problems with
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n also?
I believe have now fixed the problem with
http://www.w3.org/International/tools (missing .var file). Leif please
try again.
Ian,
The link on http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n should point to
.../tools rather than .../tools/. Could you change that please?
Thanks,
RI
On 21/08/2011 18:17, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
An I18N article specifies: [0]
]] It is important to specify a default file, since a user who
doesn't have either English [ … snip … ] would otherwise receive a HTTP
406 result (NOT ACCEPTABLE) rather than a file. [[
But here is one I18N page which doesn't follow this advice, and thus
causing problems: http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n
Do this, to replicate the bug:
0) Use non-English localization of Windows XP or Mac OS X (I tested
Norwegian localization of Windows XP as well as several localizations
of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.)
1) Open Safari (Windows or Mac) or Internet Explorer 8
2) Open the following URL: http://www.w3.org/i18n
(You then land on the following URL:
<http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n>)
3) Locate and click on the link 'Tools' (which points to
http://www.w3.org/International/tools/)
Expected result: To see the content of the Tools page.
Actual result - Safari: '406 Not Acceptable' response with this message:
]]
Available variants:
* [link:]tools.en.php ,
type application/x-httpd-php,
language en, charset utf-8
[[
Actual result - Internet Explorer 8: Also a 406 HTTP error message (but
with a message from IE stating that it cannot display the Web site
format.)
For Firefox I got the same, negative result as well, if I removed
English from the list of Accept-Language: languages. (I'm not sure if
Firefox, by default, include 'en'.)
Other web browsers should show the same result if you remove English
from the list of accepted languages.
NOTE: Due to a bug [1] Webkit (with Chrome as exception) only shows a
single language tag per Accept-Language: header.
[0]
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-apache-lang-neg#defaults
[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3510
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