Translation using lang html atributtes?

  • snippet24

    (@snippet24)


    6 years ago

    I know there are plenty of plugins for translation, but it seems no one uses this approach, which is to use lang inline attributes like this:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p lang="en">This is a paragraph.</p>
<p lang="es">Esto es un parrafo.</p>
<p lang="fr">Ceci est un paragraphe.</p>
</body>
</html>

    Further info: Maybe a plugin/Wordpress could implement cached page copies based on this attributes? I’m aware of multi sites, but I consider it way to complex to support since not all plugins have support for it for instance.

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  • ikaring

    (@ikaring)

    6 years ago

    Hi.
    What is the purpose of this approach, translation or accessibility?

    Above example just display 3 paragraphs, I guess.

    Thread Starter snippet24

    (@snippet24)

    6 years ago

    What is the purpose of this approach, translation or accessibility?

    Well I was considering as approach to translate, but maybe it could be both?

    Above example just display 3 paragraphs, I guess.

    Yes but maybe like the Autoptimize plugin, based in this approach a web page for each language could be generated with the appropriate html lang language.

    https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations

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    ikaring

    (@ikaring)

    6 years ago

    It is ok if that suits you, but I dont think Im gonna use it.
    It sounds complicated for me to make/maintain lots of contents.

    Thread Starter snippet24

    (@snippet24)

    6 years ago

    But would it be less complicated than using a multi site I wonder? or than creating different websites for each language? Do note that this may be for content not managed from within WordPress, meaning that for example the_content should be translated with an existing plugin, but for content that doesn’t change there’s no need to integrate it; is extra work.

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    ikaring

    (@ikaring)

    6 years ago

    Yes, there shoud be extra works and one page contents get too long.
    Furthermore, what about custom fields, tags, dates?

    Thread Starter snippet24

    (@snippet24)

    6 years ago

    Maybe I poorly explained:

    shoud be extra work

    The extra work is for passing from hardcoded code to for exmaple the loop in WordPress for content that the user doesn’t need to modify/update

    Furthermore, what about custom fields, tags, dates?

    There are already plugins that do that.

    Thread Starter snippet24

    (@snippet24)

    6 years ago

    Or maybe even better: to use lang atribute on a “span” tag inside the “p” tag for example. What are your thoughts on this?
    Should be like this:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>
<span lang="en">This is a paragraph.</span>
<span lang="es">Esto es un parrafo.</span>
<span lang="fr">Ceci est un paragraphe.</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
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    Thread Starter snippet24

    (@snippet24)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Well it happens this exists already https://github.com/Irrelon/jquery-lang-js
    I’m still checking it, but it also seems to support lang switching with ajax/no reloading of the page!!

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