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I doubt you've ever done a translation in a large webapp. Wait until German overflows your text boxes. Or you have to deal with date formats and number format
by x0x0 7y ago
I doubt you've ever done a translation in a large webapp. Wait until German overflows your text boxes. Or you have to deal with date formats and number formats and ... And rtl languages are just a stylesheet away. Hah, but no.
And how many devices across how many OSes do you test on? Particularly all the devices that functionally no one in the global north purchases?
What is your accessibility test plan and how often do you run it?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> Wait until German overflows your text boxes. Or you have to deal with date formats and number formats and ... And rtl languages are just a stylesheet away. Web browsers handle all of that correctly by default. A big part of web bloat is just developers including frameworks and libraries than break things by trying to reimplement them in a way more convenient for devs and designers - and then having to include more libraries and custom code to fix the breakage. All of that is self-inflicted.
- dx034 7y ago> Web browsers handle all of that correctly by default. Unfortunately, they don't. Many websites don't look nice in languages that tend to have longer words (e.g. German). Yes, the browser will cut if off so that it doesn't destroy the design. But that makes it unreadable and not nice to use for speakers of that language. To have a beautiful design that works with many translations is an enormous task.