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Friday 9 December 2005
Putting The “World” into World Wide Web
24 WAYS IS friend and colleague Drew MclLellan’s seasonal celebration featuring an article-a-day on a range of Web design and development topics.
Today, I’m featured, with my article Putting the World into World Wide Web.
Here’s the 24 Ways intro to the article:
Molly E. Holzschlag explores the many issues surrounding the internationalization and localization of both web design and site content. As a W3C invited expert for internationalization, and an International Woman of Mystery, she knows what she’s talking about – in anyone’s language.
Impress your friends with your wont for internationalization
Enjoy!
Filed under: society, standards, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 04:36 | Comments (10)
Nongyaw and I once received a christmas card from someone at Microsoft, and Nongyaw was shocked to find her name written in red ink.
In Thailand, corpses are not cremated until 100 days after death. The corpse is kept at the Temple, and the name of the deceased is written on the coffin in red. So to write a Thai person’s name in red ink is to wish them dead.
(Think of the css rules for the font of your input fields if you’re asking someone for their name!)
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Great post Molly.
I see the last 2 points “Using symbols, icons and colors properly” and “Choosing appropriate references to objects and ideas” are very important and brilliant points.
I saw your article late last night (early this AM), and rather enjoyed it. One of the nice thing about adopting web standards and best practices is the ability to more easily make changes to accomodate local languages and customs. I am just starting a project that was going to be only in english, but I received volunteers to translate into French, German, and Spanish. Granted, not much has to be done to the over-all layout, as they’re all western european languages. However I *do* wish to foster a sense of community, and as such, I will make subtle changes to make everyone feel “at home”.
The bast way to feel world is your hands and eyes, not in digital way.
Way to go International Woman of Mystery, I like it!
Not sure about Klerk’s post, the web is and has the potential to be even more powerful at making the world appear smaller and more accessible to anyone. Blogs, wikis, sites like flickr, del.icio.us are playing a vital part in bringing people together, sharing ideas, cultures and more besides. At what other point in history have we had the ability to do all this so easily?
For me though one big question remains – How to make our sites all things to all peoples?
Just my thoughts before I go read the article.
Putting the World into “World Wide Web”
Molly has touched several very good points about web Internationalization in her article on 24 ways titled Putting the World into “World Wide Web”. When I read the title of the article I though it will all be about character…
Yea I found the 24 ways site off of the web standards site and have been glued to it ever since I think it is awsome you were featured in thier article congrats!
And i think the article is quite interesting… and useful =) Thanks for that. I enjoyed reading.
# input elements must not be direct descendants of a form element
Do you know why they did that. I didn’t know that was there until the other day when I turned on strict validation on my site. Its not a problem as such I just don’t understand why. Form seemed like a handy block level element to apply styles to, and you NEED one round inputs anyway, shrug…