Re: Selectively localized images [was: [gnu.org #604705] self-inconsistent...]

[Yavor Doganov]

Ineiev wrote:
> On 1/7/11, Yavor Doganov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Multiviews is not enabled yet, AFAIK.
> 
> Alexander noticed that when an url is written without trailing
> .html, like "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr";, it takes
> into account the browser preferences:

Right, but how did he test this with gnu.org?  IIRC, the general
consensus was to rename all original articles to .en.html (or
.html.en?) once we're ready to switch.

> Yes, he suggested to make a lot of symlinks.

Unfortunately symlinks will not work in this case.

> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\...\.html)$
> RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

This is www-discuss material, although only the GNU sysadmins manage
the web server configuration.  I am going to initiate such discussion
(preparation to switch to MultiViews) once I figure out what are the
missing bits (from GNUN's perspective).

My bewilderment was that multiviews cannot "localize" SSI #include
directives or random <img> attributes, because there's no (sane) way
to determine which directive to transform (in the former case -- for
images it is completely out of question, I think), and such
transformation happens before the whole page is being served to
clients.  Anyway, I may be wrong.