i18n: Multiple manifest links with different hreflang?

[aarongustafson]

I know we have a bunch of ideas around internationalization and the guidance in the spec itself, but I am curious if we ever discussed having multiple manifest links with alternate language indications? For example:

<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">
<link rel="manifest" hreflang="fr" href="manifest.fr.json">

I don’t know how many sites would actually do this, but it seems possible someone might think it would work and we should probably consider whether alternate manifests should be allowed or whether they would be thrown away.

[xfq]

I have followed most of the discussions related to i18n in the issue list, and don’t recall much discussion on this method. Most of the previous discussions were about modifying the structure within the manifest.

The closest proposal may be this: #208 (comment)

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By the way, I've removed the i18n-needs-resolution label, since it's only for issues the i18n WG has raised and looks for a response on. See docs here:

• https://github.com/w3c/manifest/labels?q=i18n
• https://github.com/w3c/horizontal-issue-tracker/blob/master/docs/HOWTO.md

We're happy to improve our documentation if it's not clear enough ^_^

[kenchris]

Might be worth to check this out as it seems somewhat related: w3ctag/design-reviews#301

[FluorescentHallucinogen]

Any news?