- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:49:12 +0900
- To: Chuck Houpt <chuck@habilis.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hi Chuck, Thanks for your work, and thanks for creating a very cool demo showcasing what you have in mind. I would really like to include your work into the development of the validator. We've been aware of the localization of the openSP parser for a while, and, as you could see, the validator's code has been prepared for localization. However, as your demo shows, there is a lot more than the error messages to translate in order to have a localized validator. In semi-arbitrary order: * the error messages * the rest of the results templates * the interface (home page and forms) * the error message explanations The above is a minimum in my view, best even would be to also translate the documentation. I have been, over the past couple of months, working with our translators community to update the translations of the CSS validator for the new documentation and interface. The new interface sported by the CSS validator (which will also be the interface for the markup validator in a future version) makes it easier to maintain a localized version, because the interface has only one page to translate instead of the usual 4. [1] http://qa-dev.w3.org:8001/css-validator/ Here is a suggestion, if you are interested: * I can give you commit access to the validator's code repository. There is a repository set up and the validator is open source, so there's no point in creating another repository, I think * you could look into making your patch for the more recent generations of the validator (0.7.3dev and 0.8.0dev), the former is very similar to 0.7.2 and the latter actually uses openSP in a different manner, so it may be a bit of work involved. * as soon as the CSS validator's translations are finished, I plan to put them (and the new interface) into production. From there on I can move that interface to the markup validator, too, and if there is enough momentum, we can probably get translations made into 2 or 3 languages (for a start) before the next big release of the validator. Would you be happy with this plan? Thank you, olivier -- olivier Thereaux - W3C - http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/ W3C Open Source Software: http://www.w3.org/Status
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