[Cosmo-dev] Stuff in the message resource files

[Matthew Eernisse]

Responses inline ...

Travis Vachon wrote:
> The height and width parameters are for the "pop in new window" version 
> of the about dialog box. I'm fine with pulling them out of the 
> localization file, but I'm curious how you would implement this box the 
> way you describe. How would you decide how large to make the new window 
> to be sure that it accommodates all of the necessary text?

Nothing is foolproof, so the only way to be sure is to QA the thing 
after it's been localized into whatever target languages. But in 
general, you can leave plenty of whitespace for the text to expand, or 
put the text in a fixed-height container that can scroll if necessary 
(i.e., div with overflow: auto).

I guess the scrollable option would work well for the pop-up.

Here are some resources:

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/article-text-size
http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/manage/localization_design/localization_design03.html
http://www.translate.com/technology/multilingual_standard/text_expansion.html
http://www.universaldialog.com/html/expand.html

These look pretty good -- interestingly, they all say that 
Chinese/Japanese text tends to *shrink,* which is contrary to my 
experience. I guess that could have something to do with either font 
sizes, or the fact that the English source text had a lot of abbreviations.

> I'm fine with moving these out of the message resource file, but I would 
> say I'm -0 on doing this before 0.7.
> 
> -Travis
No big rush, I was more wanting to clarify what those localized message 
resource files should have in them. As long as that stuff makes it out 
of there sometime reasonably soon I'm happy.

Thanks.


Matthew