On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Erik Huelsmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone;
>>
>> Since 1.3 I had been moving to semantic markup with css positioning
>> (relative) for data entry forms. This move is supposed to make it easier
>> to support mobile devices and the like. Unfortunately this has two huge
>> tradeoffs. The first is that relative positioning seems to generally
>> demand a certain degree of internal knowledge regarding the size of label
>> fields, and the like, and consequently, I expect this to create headaches
>> for translators who may have to address this themselves. Also
>> cross-browser support for css positioning is iffy and so if we continue to
>> go that route I think we are going to want to use refab toolkits.
>>
>> I am actually thinking it might be worthwhile to move back to tables. I
>> dont think this would be a huge job to address this for 1.4 even.
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>
> Another way to look at it is to say that translators can't "just"
> translate words, but need to check the application for layout problems as
> well. If you look at translated desktop applications, you'll find that the
> resource files for windows, dialogs etc. have been adapted to fit the
> translated strings. I guess this is a similar problem: layout/positioning
> and content (text) seem to go together in this respect.
>
> But then the question becomes: how can we add language specific CSS?
>
Or maybe there's an underlying question: Do we expect mobile devices to use
our (current) web interface or will we need to work on a mobile-specific
UI, for example by building an Android app?
Bye,
Erik.
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