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How to localize a simple HTML website page in my case?

Asked 2011-09-23T14:15:29.190
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I am NOT developing any web service application which contain client side and backend server side (like java EE application or Ruby on Rails).

Instead, I am simply developing a HTML website page, on this page, there are two flag images(USA and China) which is used as a language selection of the page for users.

I am wondering, for this single web page development (without any backend system), is there any efficient way to implement the page localization(that's display the page in different language) based on the flag selection from user?

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Easy answer: No, using a backend is the easiest and best way to accomplish this. Backend code is designed for dynamic content, which is what you want.

Hard answer: This is a way to do this without dividing up your pages into two directories. The problem is that you're going to have to use Javascript to generate your page content, and that's generally a bad idea. But you could use a javascript MVC library, plus ajax calls to content folders that pull in the text (you'd still have to have two directories for English and Chinese, but they would only contain content, not HTML). The thing is, there's multiple potential problems with this method that it's only worth using if you know your users will have a modern browser with javascript enabled.

answered 2011-09-23T14:27:07.103

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