cvs commit: www/en/docproj translations.sgml

[Hiroki Sato]

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Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at FreeBSD.org> wrote
  in <45A63738.4010207 at FreeBSD.org>:

ga> Hiroki Sato schrieb:
ga> > Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at FreeBSD.org> wrote
ga> >   in <45A3F432.4090502 at FreeBSD.org>:
ga> > ga> >
ga> > ga> For a drop-down list similarly as mirrors are listed? I remember to have
ga> > ga> seen such screenshot somewhere and I find it a great idea.
ga> >
ga> >  I prefer to put the language list to the bottom of the page as a
ga> >  content of the footer, and all pages should have it if possible (with
ga> >  some automation).  Two drop-down lists in the page, one for language
ga> >  and another for location is a confusing design for readers, I think.
ga> >
ga> >
ga>
ga> Well, I think it should be kept somewhere at the top. It I were a new
ga> user and saw the website I'm pretty sure I could hardly notice the
ga> languages at the bottom. One has to scroll down even with higher
ga> resolution to see the bottom of the page, so one can't see the website
ga> as a whole.

 Good point.  I was thinking a style used in www.gnu.org (a link
 "Translations of this page" in the header and the language list in
 the footer).  And one of the reasons why I suggest it is that I
 really want to mark or get rid of outdated translations in some way
 (at build time, not to remove from CVS completely, of course)---if we
 only have a link to the translated top page only, people who usually
 read the translated pages are likely to fail to notice newly-added
 contents under the top page in the English version.  If we have the
 language list in the footer, I think it would not be an eyesore even
 if it put at the bottom of (nearly) all pages as well as we would not
 have a trouble with overflowing the space at the page top.  So I
 think it is better than simply making the language bar longer.  The
 current version also has some other problems---well, is it easy to
 understand "zh_CN" means Chinese?

 Anyway, I will submit this idea in a patch later for further
 discussion.  Any comments are welcome.

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| Hiroki SATO
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