On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:35:22PM +1300, Chris Cormack wrote:
My main impression is though, that it is the process that is wrong, not the method. IE the way templates are being maintained is bad, not the idea of using templates.
Templates are good. They just don't go far enough, is all. Templates separate presentation from implementation: the Perl coder can just make sure the code generates correct results, without worrying whether it'll look like; and the web designer can concentrate on the look of the site without having to look at Perl code. But i18n should take this one step further, and separate the language from the presentation, as much as possible. I suspect that in practice, people who design their own templates are going to use the default ones as a model: they'll rearrange the existing elements, rather than inventing whole new applications from scratch. Consequently, a lot of strings will stay the same from one theme to the next. It would be nice to be able to take the default "look", change the colors and logos, and magically have it work in all supported language, even as Koha itself evolves. -- Andrew Arensburger This message *does* represent the arensb@ooblick.com views of ooblick.com Null modems were created when God got no handshake.