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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:39:06 +0800
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, keramida@FreeBSD.ORG, joel@FreeBSD.ORG, simon@FreeBSD.ORG, doc-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, gabor@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/docproj translations.sgml
Message-ID:  <45A6A06A.7060108@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070112.050655.02226883.hrs@allbsd.org>
References:  <45A3F432.4090502@FreeBSD.org>	<20070111.011416.74681391.hrs@allbsd.org>	<45A63738.4010207@FreeBSD.org> <20070112.050655.02226883.hrs@allbsd.org>

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Hiroki Sato wrote:
> [-doc@ added to Cc: list]
>=20
> Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> wrote
>   in <45A63738.4010207@FreeBSD.org>:
>=20
> ga> Hiroki Sato schrieb:
> ga> > Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> wrote
> ga> >   in <45A3F432.4090502@FreeBSD.org>:
> ga> > ga> >
> ga> > ga> For a drop-down list similarly as mirrors are listed? I remem=
ber 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 lang=
uage
> ga> >  and another for location is a confusing design for readers, I th=
ink.
> ga> >
> ga> >
> ga>
> ga> Well, I think it should be kept somewhere at the top. It I were a n=
ew
> 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 webs=
ite
> ga> as a whole.
>=20
>  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  really want to mark or get rid of outdated translations in some way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?

Yes, it would be much better if we would be able to do that.

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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