Re: I18N content

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:46:52 +0200, Christian Scholz 
<cs-WV3Fc3dYO6sqcZcGjlUOXw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > At europython I've discussed with longsleep (author of I18NLayer) about
> > our respective I18N stuff and I'll try to explain some idea here. My 
> > implementation has some problems which are not easy to fix, catalog 
> > support and navigator's cache support. Those are correctly
> > supported by I18NLayer. So we think that we should implement a field
> > based internationalization using the I18NLayer.
>
> Can you maybe explain this catalog problem a bit more? What's the problem 
> with
> it? Maybe it makes sense to know a bit more about that as it might affect 
> other
> solutions/ideas floating around in people's heads, too.

Ok .. there are several problems when putting multilingual content into one 
object

first problem is cataloging .. the zcatalog indexes the result of one 
method of one object .. if you have a method which will return different 
content based on whatever conditions which one should be indexed?

second problem is caching .. since internet exploder does not support the 
vary http response header different urls are required to support caching 
properly .. single and different urls are currently supported by i18nlayer 
.. i am thinking about only supporting urls like http://yoururl/en and 
http://yoururl/de in future by redirecting all http://yoururl requrests to 
its single language url .. i am not sure about this right now .. but only 
this will support caching in internet  explorer.

> So in short: Is it a goal to make Archetypes easier to extend by trying 
> to create separate products and enhancing it's interfaces instead of just
> merging it directly into the base product.

i think since archetypes is a framework it shouldnt become too big .. it 
should stay small and easily pluggable for additional functions.

best regards,
Simon



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