Re: [Dillo-dev]What's about i18n (internationalization)?

[Jorge A. C. <jc...@ma...>]

Luca,
(and everyone!)

> Hi,
>   in this days I've tried to add i18n to Dillo. I'm using gettext package.
> I've added the po/ and intl/ into source tree, modified the configure.in and
> added the necessary code to dillo.c and menu.c thus I've tried to translate
> some menu items in Italian (it works !).
> 
> So my question is: Are we interested in i18n?

  Of  course  it's  a desirable feature, but I'd rather prefer we
focus  on  bug  fixing  now; I've been deeply digging the sources
these days and I'm somewhat scared on what I've found.

  Please  don't  get me wrong, I do like those new features, what
I'm  trying to do is to finish the stabilization process, and end
up  with  a  rock-solid  browser that's easy to understand and to
extend. BTW: when adding the PNG decoding routines, Geoff used a
very  similar  aproach  to  what he saw with GIF and JPG. But the
underlying  mechanism  was  broken, so he was not able to know in
advance that it wasn't his code's fault when some images were not
rendering... I've experienced that several times before, and it's
incredibly  discouraging  to start trying to find were the bug is
(or  whether your fault or not), in a very big code base that you
don't   know,  that's  undocumented  and  sometimes  misleadingly
commented...

  I  don't  want our developers to experience that painful coding
facts,  and  that's why I prefer to stabilize, clean and fix what
we have now, and after that, to focus on what we'd like to add or
improve.  As a matter of fact, I've found several more bugs while
working the code and I'll introduce them into the bug track ASAP.

  Please  don't  be  deceived  by  a pretty face, Dillo _IS_ very
BUGGED  now,  we  haven't reached the safe extensibilty milestone
yet. You have been warned...


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Luca:
  In  regard  to  'text',  'link',  'vlink' and 'alink', they are
highly  required  now (cause bgcolor will be included in the next
release).  Please make a feature-fault entry at the bug-track and
keep up the good job!


  sincerely
  Jorge.-


Pd: I'll try to release dillo-0.0.4 today.