-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Having just IRCed about this with Frans Pop, I thought I'd clarify a few of points:
I was _not_ trying to re-raise the old idea whereby following a single language specific link results in your experience of the whole Debian site flipping languages. (I'm aware that is too painful to contemplate) All I was pointing out is that for this specific page, it's a bit poor for us to inflict the wrong language on someone if they've first managed to notice that we have translations, and then managed to find the link in their own language to the page about how to fix their browser. Frans pointed out that the problem with the idea I suggested is that we might have pages that have been translated into languages for which there is no translation of the cn page, which would then result in hanging links. Perhaps for this one page we could encourage translators to have something available before all others? Even if it's only a "this page has not been translated yet" page -- at least that way the user would see a page with all the links to the other translations, so they might find one in another language that they can use to let them fix their browser setup. Obviously that doesn't help for the situation where someone has done a load of translation, and then wandered off, leaving us with no translator for that language. Another alternative (which is probably not implementable, but then I don't know how these pages are generated) would be to somehow redirect attempts to access missing translations back to the .../cn page, so that at least they get a page in their default language, as they do now (although that would then of course do nothing to address the subject of this bug report) An alternative to the language specific links idea (and probably easier to implement) would be to duplicate the "this page is available in other languages" section at the top of the page (or perhaps have a sidebar down the left hand side?) so that our victim at least gets a to see a familiar word to click on straight away, rather than having to pass the test of scrolling down what is quite a long page before finding the link they were really looking for. Cheers, Phil. - -- P.S.sorry about the multiple post/wrong pseudo-package stupidity on my part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFo/5KYgOKS92bmRARAgTYAJ9gsnOwfv/jF+mSRiZ1PuQxsTaF/QCfV7vS FUP1KUKvmqunsRxXfQsRA7o= =hi11 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
