language websites and map from www

Hi all,

I've been thinking about the problem of mapping content
on the $lang websites, and linking it to www etc.  It
seems to me that even the best soloution - Vincent's
proposed xml file which describes which page on $lang 
is which page on www - is only a half soloution, since it
cannot address content on fr.netbeans.org that does not 
exist on www, say that Vincent himself writes in french,
and is not available in english ?

So I was thinking maybe the better answer is to not map
them at all.  The language switcher will jump to 
$lang.nb.org, and that's all.  From there it is up to
the module site to create navigation and links to all
content on that site.

So the language switcher on www will change from meaning
"see this page in french" to "visit the french community
site".

I'm not sure this is the best thing, its just an idea.
What do you think ?


-- 
Jack Catchpoole
NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
http://www.netbeans.org/