Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Language suggestion

[Karsten D. <k.d...@fi...>]

Hi!

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:59:43 -0600, Bob Treumann wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2002 at 14:18, Matthew McNaney wrote:
> 
> > Why does it matter if static information is served up when the
> > content is always written in one language anyway?
> 
> Here are a few advantages:
[...]

The 4th point you mention seems to be a very strong point. Anyway,
here a few more thoughts on this, that came up in the past. And that
(partly) explain why it indeed _does_ matter to have the static stuff
served dynamically.

There was a thread started by Todd Owen on March 23rd 2001, the
subject was "Multi-lingual sites", that discusses some of the pros and
cons.

More recent is the thread started at the end of November 2001, where a
discussion about this emerged from "One among many" written by Matthew
McNaney. There Brian W. Brown lays out his thoughts in a message
titled "Re: the last crusade (is: Re: One among many)".

I have written a followup (Msg-ID: <200...@to...st>)
to this thread where I explain why switching languages on the fly is
(IMHO) needed even if we (yet) only have single-language content.

And Philip McAllister threw in some nice views about
internationalization/localisation from a professional point of view
which are worth a read.

> Well, personally I thought this would be a great benefit, but  I 
> won't push it.

Summing up: I am still supporting a dynamic language system. Even if
it means some impact on speed - we could wrap some caching around the
whole thing (see PEAR::Cache) to regain what we've lost.

Regards,
Karsten
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