Luigi Donatello Asero said:By checking the links of the page
http://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/it/svezia.html
the "Accept-language" of the link checker showed Swedish instead of
Italian
although
I used <html lang="it">
Why?
Andrew Urquhart said:*Luigi Donatello Asero* wrote in alt.html:
'Svezia' is Sweden yes? For me it was 'en' in the UK, so it's either
using the header sent by your browser (which is usually based on the
language set for your operating system) or (somewhat less likely) it's
doing a reverse DNS-lookup on your IP address.
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[snip]*Andrew Urquhart* said:[snip] it's either using the header sent by your browser [...] or
[...] doing a reverse DNS-lookup on your IP address.
Can I do something to let validators, and robots understand when a page is
in one language and another page in another language, (for example
http://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/sv/sicilien.html
although both pages belong to he same website?
http://validator.w3.org/checklink?u.../svezia.html&hide_type=all&depth=&check=CheckLuigi Donatello Asero said:Here is the result:
Andrew Urquhart said:*Luigi Donatello Asero* wrote in alt.html:[snip]*Andrew Urquhart* said:[snip] it's either using the header sent by your browser [...] or
[...] doing a reverse DNS-lookup on your IP address.
Can I do something to let validators, and robots understand when a page is
in one language and another page in another language, (for example
http://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/sv/sicilien.html
although both pages belong to he same website?
If this is a problem for you then the GUI for the link checker would
seem to have the answer: <URL: http://validator.w3.org/checklink> with
the 'Don't send the Accept-Language header' checkbox!
Luigi Donatello Asero said:By checking the links of the page
http://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/it/svezia.html
the "Accept-language" of the link checker showed Swedish instead of
Italian
although
I used <html lang="it">
Why?
Jukka K. Korpela said:What the browser sends has absolutely nothing to do with your HTML
markup. Moreover, in language negotiation - which is what Accept-Language
is for - the HTML markup is completely irrelevant, too. Search engines,
unfortunately, ignore the lang attribute too.
Pretty much the only benefit you currently get from lang="it" is that
when someone visits your page with a modern speech browser like IBM Home
Page Reader, the browser automatically reads the text by the
pronunciation rules for Italian, if it supports this language.
It's still a good idea to use lang attributes (and it's mandatory by WAI
recommendations). But don't expect them to do things they weren't meant
for or just don't do.
For multiple-language site design, I still recommend my treatise
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/multi/
In particular, if you simply links all the different versions together
with normal links, you don't need to worry about search engines (in this
respect).
Luigi Donatello Asero said:If you look for some search terms like "lägenheter i Italien" on
www.altavista.se the site http://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com has a
better rankning if you
choose the alternative "hela världen" instead of "Sverige".
That´s why I am wondering whether the search engine actually
I tried to visit the page. Did you check up all the links?
I already try to do that. It just takes time because the different
versions of one page are not made at the same time.
Jukka K. Korpela said:I have no idea how AltaVista (which is now just Overture under a
different name - quite different from the old AltaVista until this
spring) ranks the results. I have no reason to expect that this is the
least connected with any Accept-Language that you were referring to.
What happens if it puts the wrong language information?Anyway, while it is _imaginable_ that an indexing robot sends an
Accept-Language header, I cannot see why it would do so. It will happily
index everything it gets and passes some reasonability tests, then puts
it into a database, perhaps with language information. But it's not
particularly interested in asking for a specific language variant.
Don´t you think that it would be a good practice to check them more often?Oh, I check links only by accident. But the address should work -
naturally by language negotiation, though unfortunately the real
alternatives are just English and Finnish, the rest is just sketchy
demos.
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