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Authored by: Euan on Tuesday, July 02 2002 @ 10:20 pm EDT

Again, thanks guys for a fantastic program. I couldn\'t live without it. Now for the gripes (constructively):

Internationalisation: I note that none of the twenty comments already here as I write this (unless I missed one) mention internationalisation. I run a site in English/Japanese and tend to find that almost NO software ever fits my needs. I would like more control over character encoding (I can edit the templates for a charset, but it would be nice to set that per language from an admin panel). Time zones have been addressed elsewhere.

To make GL really godlike, an option to change the text content according to the language. If the user chooses the Japanese skin, they get shown the Japanese language version of a story (if available - default to admin-defined default). But I\'ll wait for GL3 for this if I can have control over encoding in GL2. Hell, I\'d pay for this (whoa, let\'s not get carried away now).

Also, ability to set the topic titles from a language file - I have to write \"english | japanese\" for all my topics, which takes up a lot of space.

Otherwise, I would support almost all the features mentioned above, particularly an improved editor. I am always dubious about using anything other than JS or plain HTML... but maybe that\'s purely a mental limitation on my part. From my internet business (not related to GL but relevant I think), I always have to think about the user in China with a dodgy 14kbps modem and a 386 running windows 3.1 with Netscape from before they had numbers. Do they have Flash installed? Okay, they don\'t have JS either, but also don\'t forget the user with a fairly simple platform.

Cheers, Euan.

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Authored by: MLimburg on Tuesday, July 02 2002 @ 10:42 pm EDT

Aside from the internationalisation issue, you\'ve raised a VERY good point. Whilst having a flash enabled editor would just rock my/our world, we always need to ensure we support the lowest range of users.

We get used to the idea of 56k modem connections and Pentium level machines as the standard with higher systems being used, but there are PLENTY of older slower systems out there. When I was working at Monash University, we had to deal with international users on 386\'s with 1200b modems running on crappy lines .. it would have been faster to send the packets via cranky pack animals over goat tracks.

We can check a good deal of this via javascript. If the test is successful, they get the \'use the flashy stuff\' flag. Allow them to switch this flag in the account section. And allow everyone else the lowest common system that will work on everything.

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