On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Oleg wrote:
> > Yes, it's not hard, but there are many problems with inventing
> > the wheel.And you make the problem harder for the next person
> > that wants to choose!Instead of starting yours, better you go
> > fix your problems with one of the available ones.For example,
> > MovableType does not support Iranian calendar and many users do
> > not care.But I do care and would add the support myself when I
> > really need to use it.AND I would send my changes upstream so
> > next person can easily get it as granted.
>
> Actually, ALL theCMS's that I reviewed did NOT had Hebrew in mind when
> being developed.
> And that poses a problem, from design point of view.
> I do not think that I am making it harder for the next person, quite the
> opposite.
> I am making it easier, as my CMS was written with Hebrew in mind First.
> Well, it's a man's choice after all :)
>
Well, pardon me, but I think you're wrong. Adding Hebrew support to an
already complete CMS, will probably easier than writing a complete CMS
from scratch "with Hebrew in mind". Especially given the fact that HTML
supports Logical Hebrew quite transparently.
If you take Qt and Gtk+ for example: they weren't written with Hebrew in
mind, but they were able to integrate it (and Unicode) without a complete
re-write. And writing an i18n'ized GUI toolkit is much harder than writing
an i18n'ized content management system.
What you did was write an ad-hoc CMS that supports Hebrew. This is a far
cry from a full-fledged CMS that supports Hebrew.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Oleg.
>
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