Re: French site is alive

Vincent Brabant wrote:

> The french site is now really alive.
> Look at http://fr.netbeans.org/

Great stuff Vincent!  You have really been busy, there is a lot 
of content and work there, fantastic.

> a)
>     I modified the left_nav.inc by adding a call to a javascript file.

Cool!

> b)
>     I also added some tags in the html page, permitting to have a
>     navigation bar with somes browser like Mozilla. Please look at
>     http://fr.netbeans.org/edi/40/articles/tutoriels/freeform-config.html
>     with browser like Mozilla, and a navigation bar will appears
>     with Top, Up, Last, Next, ...

Maybe I am looking in the wrong place, but I don't see this.  Moz 1.7,
XP.  I also tried with FireFox 1 Preview.

> c) I also added a new meta tag

[ ... ]

> A Javascript is reading that meta tags (you can have more than one meta 
> tag having as name Links: One per language) and add a link therefore.
> You can look for result at 
> http://fr.netbeans.org/edi/40/articles/tutoriels/webapps.html

Nice!

> But I think I will modify it, to have the link to original and other 
> translation appearing in the left navigation bar or on the right corner 
> like for http://www.netbeans.org

Hmmm ... I could probably add the javascript to the standard webmacro
template used for module websites, in the very top navigation bar.  
So the language pulldown would work wherever "links" METAs existed.
That would be ideal from my point of view, as the language choice
mechanism would be the same everywhere.  What do you think ?

Now I need to start to try to integrate links to your FR content from
www.

> d) I had problems of characters with the news. It seems that when I 
> create a new, encoding is not UTF-8. But the page where news are 
> displayed is well in UTF-8 encoding. And that cause problems. Look at 
> http://www.netbeans.org/community/index.html. I see question marks in 
> place of é (é)

Ooops, my fault; the news grabber script was not utf-ready.  I'm
fixing this now, the community/ and news pages should be corrected
withing a few hours.

Vincent, I noticed a few things :

1) You are using your own copy of netbeans.css, hosted on fr.nb.org.
Why is that ?  I'd recommend against that if possible, since it does
defeat the purpose of css (being able to update the whole site style
by editing just one file).

Also, I noticed that on some pages eg

   http://fr.netbeans.org/edi/40/

the css is somehow causing problems.  Compare that page to some www
page, and you notice that

- the blue strip to the right of the "About" tab is missing;
- the page is not 100% wide;

I tested and found that this must be caused by differences betwee
fr.nb.org/netbeans.css and www.nb.org/netbeans.css.  Eg here is a
version with *only* the css link chagned, and it works correctly :

   http://www.netbeans.org/download/temp/fr.html

(javascript does not wrok here as .js file is not in /temp/).

If you need some special css definitions, maybe a better way is
to use the normal www/netbeans.css, and also your own specialised
items in eg fr.css.  What do you think ?

2) fr.nb.org has some encoding problems, I see a lot of strange 
characters, eg "Bonjour, NetBeans possède enfin un coin, dédié à tous
les utilisateurs de l'EDI NetBeans."

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