Re: Localized Pages

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim helixcode com>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:51:55AM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote:
> Joakim Ziegler wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:15:21AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:

>>> I vote for KISS, if someone doesn't understand enlgish should not be using
>>> computers, al least not linux, so I vote for not to worry so much on it.
>>> Let's design the site for internationalization, but don't worry so much.
>>> aLet's add a voting booth, and then the users will decide how important is
>>> the new gnome site in different languages.
 
>> This is unacceptable. I18n/l10n is an important aspect of the new website,
>> and we have translators who want to translate the content. So this is not a
>> solution.
  
> I want localization, i just don't need a whiz-bang, flyin' across the
> screen, 
> animated who-ha to lead me to a localized version of the site.  
 
> just stating this because i dont want the 'kiss system' to be associated
> with
> people NOT interested in localization.

I agree. It seems to me that a reasonable approach, from what I've seen,
would be the following:

Present the site in English, and have a menu to select the language to use.
Use the language header the browser sends to put that language on top of the
menu, where it's most easily accessible. That seems like a reasonable
tradeoff to me.

Anyone disagree?

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