Hi,
I do exactly this at the moment. I mean the Content-language HTTP header
line.
The problem with this is that Google can''t make difference in this way
between
the pages in different languages - probably because of these translations
are
available under the same URL, and there''s nothing in the document that
describes
the language. What''s more xhtml_strict always tells that it''s
in English.
:(
Wise SEO people use a language code somewhere (in the path or as a
subdomain, sometimes as a separate domain), but I don''t want to go so
far.
I just hope that Google is good enough to recognize the different
translations
of the same content available under the same URL if there''s something
in the
document that indicates this. At least a <HTML lang="xx">.
I would like to switch to HTML5, but I''m waiting for Camping to make it
the
default :)
u.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Jenna Fox <a at creativepony.com> wrote:
> Urgh. I just turn the validation in markaby off pretty much all of the
> time - like strictly typed languages, I find it gets in my way more often
> than it helps me find errors.
>
> Instead of using the xhtml_strict macro you could do it yourself:
>
> self << "<!DOCTYPE whatever blah blah>\n"
> html "lang" => ''lc'', "xml:lang"
=> ''lc'' do
> ...
> end
>
> Though if you''re going down to this level, why not switch over to
html5?
> Everything you can reliably do in xhtml 1.0 is also available in html5, and
> the html5 doctype is simpler, while still supporting browser features using
> the same syntaxes you''re familiar with in addition to newer
compact
> versions. The html5 doctype is this:
>
> self << "<!DOCTYPE html>\n"
>
> HTML5 will become the default in a future edition of camping, as it
> supersedes the xhtml standard and provides compactness benefits and useful
> new features. Further, xml:lang is not necessary when using html5 syntax -
> lang is sufficient.
>
> Have you also considered the possibility of serving the language as a
> header? Content-Language is a http header of similar effect, which you
> could even set in your markaby templates via
@headers[''Content-Language''] > ''lc''
>
> ?
> Jenna
>
> On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 10:04 PM, Nokan Emiro wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I use this in Markaby to generate an html tag, but I need to add
lang="lc"
> and
> xml:lang="lc" (lc != :en). However xhtml_strict does not accept
> arguments. :-/
> Why not? And then how should I generate XHTML1.0 Strict docs in other
> languages? (I always feel foolish when face with such trivial problems...)
>
> u.
>
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