771006 - Reference URLS can be confusing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Frédéric Bourgeon [:FredB]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

I clicked this link : https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/fr/SVG/Element/animateColor

From this page : https://developer-new.mozilla.org/fr/docs/SVG/Element


Actual results:

I was redirected there : https://developer-new.mozilla.org/fr/docs/SVG/Element/animateColor

With the non-existing translation header message and have been served non-translated document.


Expected results:

I should have been able to click on : https://developer-new.mozilla.org/fr/docs/SVG/Element/animateColor

right from the reference, and the link should have been red if the doc didn't existed.

I guess this is an incentive to promote translating, and still serve content, but this the user actually waits for a doc in his language.

Some thinking required to confirm the behaviour.

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Need to discuss this with l10n and translators before we take it on.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I'm closing this one. Non-translated urls shows the English content with a warning banner. Shouldn't be confusing any more.

Fred, if you disagree, please reopen.