Re: Re: proposal for translated content projects

Vincent Brabant wrote:

>> This would work ... but is not a *great* browsing
>> experience I think 
> 
> Agree, but the alone that is working today.

Yes, it is working today, and we can continue like this.  I
would like to improve it though.

> Maybe, (just a proposal) build one page per language, list all documents 
> available in the desired language (It would be easy for Marek, just 
> check the presence of the language metatag. It would be as easy as build 
> a page for HOWTO, or NBUSERS I suppose.

Yes, would work, and very easy to do.  If you think about
it, this is *almost* the same as what I am proposing -
except host that page (or few pages) on ISO.nb.org.  And
then improve it a little by having some nicer navigation
for the pages there ...

> The problem is that left tab is UNIQUE for all the project. Or, in www, 
> the left tab is always depending of the current displayed page.

This is true - on module websites, the left nav is
fixed and static for all pages on that website.  Our
testwww/www system allows us to have a "dynamic" left
nav for www, but IMO it is not realistic to try to
implement that for all or even some other module
websites.

This is a disadvantage of module websites ... IMO not
significant enough to not do it at all though.

>> Also true, but the new SourceCast has some printing
>> fixes that will make any pages printable (css2 I
>> think, so older browsers wont support it).  So that
>> will be (soon ?) fixed.
> 
> When it's soon ?

Well I am not sure; it should have been months ago
but there were some performance problems found, and
Collab postponed the release to fix them.  I think
they are now fixed, and it is up to us to schedule
some suitable time ... I would guess within 1mth ??
(*guess!!*).

>> Interesting idea ... what about having it on fr.nb.org ? :-)
> 
> I really have no idea how to manage rss file. So, if you can explain me 
> how it works, I will be happy.

Well ... RSS is just an XML export of data from
somewhere else.  My RSS script just grabs news
data  from www, wraps it up in XML, and publishes it.

So it really just depends on what you want in your
FR feed.  Eg if you want a translated version of
the english RSS, you (and/or fr team) would first
have to translate the items of course; then put
them somewhere online (in some predictable format).
My script can just then grab them and do the same
process as for EN version.

BTW this would probably be really easy if the news
servlet on fr.nb.org was a simple translation of the
version on www at :

    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ProjectNewsList

:-)  That way news is 1) in predictable, known
format, and 2) found in a single known place.

-- 
Jack Catchpoole
NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
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