Re: French site is alive

Vincent Brabant <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:51:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.webteam
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jack Catchpoole a écrit :

> Vincent Brabant wrote:
>
>> In my french version of Mozilla, I have a main menu Affichage 
>> (Dispaly in english )
>> then ToolBars and then Navigation ToolBar, and I can always hide it, 
>> always show it or show it only when necessary. Please check with your 
>> version if it's enable or not.
>
>
> Aha, found it, cool!  For reference in my Moz it is under View ->
> Show/Hide -> Site Navigation Bar.  The default option was "Hide
> Always" so it never showed up previously.  I changed it to "show
> as needed" and it works great for fr.nb.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 ? 
>>
>>
>> If you can do something to have the same mechanism everywhere, it's 
>> sure it's welcome.
>
>
> OK, I will think about this more.
>
>>> 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 ? 
>>
>>
>> It was my fault.
>> Now I modifed the nebeans.css of fr.netbeans.org to include the 
>> www.netbeans.org/netbeans.css and
>> add another css entry.
>
>
> OK, I see it is fixed.  However, a better way to do this is just
> have your own special css file, with a unique filename (eg fr.css).
> Your pages will automatically use netbeans.css (it is added by 
> webmacro, *if* there is not already a reference to "netbeans.css"),
> and you can specify your customisations as well by just using
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
> href="http://fr.netbeans.org/fr.css">
>
> This way if/when we update any css on nb.org, since you are using
> the root /netbeans.css file you will automatically see the changes
> without updating your css or html.

I will try it.

>
>
>> I really have no idea what's happens here.
>> if you look in cvs, the fr/www/index.html contains all necessary for 
>> encoding and css stylesheet, but for any obscure reason, it's not 
>> taken into account. It means that fr.netbeans.org is not containing 
>> the meta tag for encoding nor the link for css file.
>>
>> Any idea why ?
>>
>> Same problems occurs with all main index.html pages of all projects.
>
>
> !? Really?  I see fr.nb.org looks better now, how did you fix it ? 

I modified it to use &eacute; in place of the character itself. Very 
annoying to type.


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