On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Robert Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently an en_GB (United Kingdom) translation for Jmol was introduced. I'm > fixing that a bit, but at the same time I'm wondering if people realize that > this adds 200K to the size of the applet for all UK users. (That's a 30% > increase in base size.)
Don't we have indexing for that? Localization always adds some weight... is the en_GB 200KB in size? Compressed? > Questions: > > 1. Not that it isn't good to have this language variant, but is the > trade-off in download size worth it? [Obviously it is for other languages, > but I'd like to hear what our UK users think.] How does the indexing of l18n's work? Is it not possible to only have it download this l18n if the user is in en_GB Locale? > 2. Should then en_GB be the default for en_XX -- a country other than US but > not GB? No, I'd default to en_US as English default... > 3. Should we perhaps package the languages classes separately or in separate > groups so that the entire translation package isn't downloaded with any > particular language switch? If you mean, should it use indexing... yes, that would be ideal, I guess... when we got more languages this will become more and more important, I'd say... -- ---- http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
