>> First off, my system in its present iteration doesn't try >> to translate on > its own. Thats left up to humans. And further it doesn't > try to synch up > various versions of content (i.e. the German, Dutch, > French and English > versions of Page Foo must all be updated before they can > be published as a > group)... but its been requested and might be a reality by > the time I get > around to a release.
> ah, i skipped right over that. well i consider that just > an awful way of > doing a multilingual CMS. it irks me no end to see content > or structure vary > between locales. it makes me feel that one locale is less > important than > another, so why even bother offering it? for extreme > examples see some thai > gov or academic websites "english" pages. they're often a > single line or > just the title in english, the rest of the content in thai > or there will be > 100 pages of thai content & 1 page of english, etc. makes > me want to grab > the webmasters by their ears & shake some sense into them. > but thats just me. Matt Walker told me once that in developing their CMS they found that most of their clients (largely tourism industry) frequently don't want the same content in different languages because they're trying to emphasise different things to each set of potential visitors... Which may have a lot to do with that particular industry -- I always thought something like product information was a good example of why you would want the ability to translate and associate the same pages in each language, even if you didn't take advantage of it for every page. s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi team macromedia volunteer http://www.macromedia.com/go/team certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
