Sent by Chris Chen on 5 March 2007 08:08
>This is a functionality or content issue and not in the realm of CSS. The
>main problems is how to organize the site maintenance so that changes will
>be made in a coordinated manner.
>
>However, if you use the same markup and the same style sheet, basically
>intending to modify the textual content only, then you may need to
>consider some "internationalization" issues in CSS. For example, setting
>widths in pixels is particularly problematic, since the length and
>formatting requirements of a piece of text may greatly differ from the
>requirements of its translations. You might find it necessary to divide
>the style sheet into two parts, a general part and a language-specific
>part.
Apart from the potential CSS formatting issue, is it common practice for
multi-language websites to simply keep multiple versions of the same pages
and switch according to user's preference (which is not impractical at all
given that I only need to deal with two languages)?
Thanks,
Chris
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