Small new usability feature: on languagetool.org, the language you use is now stored in a cookie and it’s the default language when you visit next time. This currently only works on the homepage (https://languagetool.org), not yet on the sub pages (LanguageTool - Grammatik-, Stil- und Rechtschreibprüfung etc.)
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@dnaber wrote:
It should now also work on sub pages like Grammatik-, Stil- und Rechtschreibprüfung - LanguageTool
The cookie is useful if we don’t specify a language in the URL, i.e. when the URL
is https://languagetool.org
But I don’t think that we should set the language with a cookie when the URL
specifies the language. I find this very confusing. If I give a URL like
Grammatik-, Stil- und Rechtschreibprüfung - LanguageTool then I’d expect that the language is set to German.
Hmmm, but then there is no Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker - LanguageTool for English.
I don’t think it’s nice that English behaves differently than other languages.
It would be better if there was a page Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker - LanguageTool
which is in English, and the text to be checked is always English.
Only the page https://languagetool.org/ would remember the language
with a cookie, but it can default to English if there is no cookie.
For first-time visitors without a cookie, you still get German at Grammatik-, Stil- und Rechtschreibprüfung - LanguageTool. I think there are quite some external links from the web to these sub pages, but people might still use Grammatik-, Stil- und Rechtschreibprüfung - LanguageTool to check English text, just because it’s the link they clicked on first.
Having Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker - LanguageTool would be nice in any case, any help with creating it is welcome.