On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 17:06, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>
>> This thing relies upon the URLs being the same, right? So if we want
>> to do that, why do we need to fiddle with javascript - we could just
>> put links directly into the templates and have "real links" instead of
>> javascript, no?
>
> Yeah. I also wonder if it's a good idea to add so many "official"
> looking links to sites that we don't manage. We have spent a lot of
> time ensuring that our primary site is mirrored across multiple
> servers and is able to handle error conditions gracefully. I'd rather
> see the foreign language docs on the same servers, and also with the
> same stylesheets, banners and menus etc, to avoid confusing the user
> by sending them to a completely different site.
Yes, that is the other side that needs to be considered.
Also the neverending debate on what to do when the translation is out
of date (e.g. at every point release or so..)
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