Yes, that's what I meant. I'll give it a try later this week.

On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:04 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> On 2010-02-16, at 19:52, Raju Bitter wrote:
> 
>> I haven't tested if it works to compile a LZO referencing a CSS for 
>> different languages. Someone would have to try that, do you think that will 
>> work, Tucker?
> 
> Not sure exactly what you are asking here.
> 
> In the model you gave, your build process is modifying the source for each 
> target language and (re-)compiling.  Since an LZO is essentially opaque, you 
> can't follow that same model.  Ideally, we'd like to have fully dynamic CSS 
> that you could reload at runtime.  This would let you change language on the 
> fly.  I don't see that happening right away, but what you _should_ be able to 
> do today is create a library containing the stylesheet for each language you 
> plan to support, compile that library as a dynamic <import>, and arrange for 
> your server to deliver the correct language-style-import when your app is 
> loaded.  (I've not tested this.  If someone want to try, please do.  We do 
> have a goal of greatly improving the CSS support in OL 5, so I'd like to 
> pursue this as a step toward runtime-loadable CSS styles.)


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