Major push into a dynamic site with full internationalisation capabilities. Follows guidelines provided by W3C regarding language selection and identification. Notably there will be no inference of language from the Accept-Language header. The user will be expected to select their language from a list of available translations. The translation box will only be available once more than one language is fully in place.
Language codes are based on the two letter ISO 639-1 codes.
The language code is placed in the path either at the start (for main pages) or one level down (for images, help etc). This is to ensure a uniform structure between image and textual resource provision. Dropwizard handles image assets internally and requires a specific path format to operate correctly.
Site v3 will provide endpoints that will automatically resolve the v2 site links and issue redirects (301 Moved Permanently) into v3 links
These are the initial pages that the user finds on their visit to the site.
/ -> English index.html
/{page}.html -> English main pages
/{lang}/{page}.html -> Language-specific page (e.g. en, fr, de, ru, but not de_AU, de_CH etc)
Help pages are specifically there to assist users and have a different layout to the main site
/help -> English help index.html for all versions
/help/{lang} -> Language-specific help index.html for all versions
/help/{lang}/{version}/{page}.html -> Language-specific help index.html for version
Images are currently cached and served internally by Dropwizard but can be handled by a Content Delivery Network (CDN) or a static web server
/images/{version}/.../{image path} -> English image path
/images/{lang}/{version}/.../{image path} -> Language-specific image path
News and blog pages are arbitrary articles with a timestamp and have a different layout to the main site. The prefix
of blog is chosen since it does not imply a recent event.
/blog -> English help index.html for recent articles
/blog/{year}/{month}/{day}/{page}.html -> English article
/blog/{lang}/{year}/{month}/{day}/{page}.html -> Language-specific article
Current as at April 2013 with many external references by linking sites Superseded in June 2013 by v3
/ -> English index.html
/{page}.html -> English main pages (includes v0.4 help pages)
/helpImages/{image}.png -> v0.4 help images
/v0.5/{page}.html -> v0.5 help pages
/v0.5/helpImages/{image}.png -> v0.5 help images
Entirely superseded