Rob Weir wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:48 AM, saransh wrote:
Can we make a website with automated language selector or optional
language selector
Sure, if you want to give it a try just provide somewhere a version of
the index.html page with the additional selector and a working
redirection to the native lang pages (example: German
http://www.openoffice.org/de/ ; Italian http://www.openoffice.org/it );
but read below for constraints.
and over all I m not convinced really website
looks great either you can incorporate bootstrap into it what do
you say...
I'm not very familiar with Bootstrap. Can you explain more? For
example, does it require server-side processing?
No, Bootstrap is a JavaScript framework under Apache License 2:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ ; while very good for certain use
cases, we probably don't want to depend on a JavaScript framework at the
moment. So no jQuery, no Bootstrap, even though I wouldn't rule them out
if we at a certain time restructure the whole site.
And for a language selector, we talked at one time about adding the
Google Translate drop down on each page, to make it easier for
visitors to get a page translated
It would be enough to have a language selector on the homepage (or
everywhere, but redirecting to the native-lang homepage). So, no content
translation, but merely a redirection to a localized website. Now, to
see the German site, one has to click on "Native Language" and then
select "German". Having a language drop-down near the search box would
improve the user experience. (By the way: no flags, language names are
OK and politically correct).
Regards,
Andrea.
