Language Variant Resource Management in Pages

Language Variant Resource Management in Pages

COMPLETE - Language Variants are by default excluded from the File Archive listing and the Master Archive listing. They are only viewable by selecting a particular time variant.
COMPLETE - Any operation on a generic time-variant resource must also take place on its language-variants. This must include copies, renames, and deletes. Specifically, when a generic time variant is copied to produce a new one, the corresponding language variants must likewise be copied, so as to produce an unbroken chain. However, any copy, upload, or deletion operation that takes place on a specific language-variant resource must take place only on it (renaming can only take place at the whole-resource level).
COMPLETE - The delete operation performed on a time variant must remove all associated language variants.

COMPLETE - On the Master Archive, a new "Localize" link (active only when a page is selected), and a listing of language variants upon selection of a particular time variant. Once they are displayed, a single-click selects a language variant for operations such as copy, upload, and delete. A double-click skyWrites. The generic time variant and each language variant are independently selectable. Which of them is the current selection is clear at a glance.
COMPLETE - the skyWrite link registers which language version to edit
Design sketch:

Master Archive for test7.html: Settings | Protection | Requests: 48

Name

Scheduled For

Date Created

test7.20001214120219.html

Wednesday, December 14, 2000 12:02 AM EST

test7.20001213120219.html

en-US

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:02 AM EST

test7.20001212120219.html

Wednesday, December 12, 2000 12:02 AM EST

COMPLETE - When Localize is clicked, the page reloads with "Choose a Locale:" instead of "Pages in this Series:". This is follwed by a select box populated with the available locales. Remove from this list all those locales for which this resource already has variants.
Sketch:

Choose a Locale:

COMPLETE - In the page footer, piped links to all localized versions of the page should be offered. A link back to the generic time variant is also necessary. The page being displayed should have a name in the list, but only as plain text, not a link.
COMPLETE - When a specific language version is chosen from these, an Accept-Language cookie is set, with no expiry. Other sensitive pages will notice and respect this over the browser setting, so that if a link is followed to another time variant of the same page or to a separate page altogether, the language choice will follow along to other language sensitive pages.
COMPLETE - The skywrite link should skywrite the particular language variant, if such a version has been loaded. In this case, it means passing a locale ID or code in such a form that skywriter can do something with it - perhaps it could sense for the Accept-Language Cookie. The cookie, however, might be refused by the client - better to rely on the querystring.
Sketch: <
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Generic | en | en-US | fr | de | jp | mc
skyCalendar
This version archived at: http://www.skybuilders.com/users/derek/workPage.20011213120443.html
Wed Jan 17 06:00:00 EST 2001
Requests
Version: 37 | Series: 144

COMPLETE - In the persistent archive, all localized versions of each page should be offered.
Sketch:

Name	Scheduled For	Bookmarks
test7.20001214120219.html en \| en-US \| fr \| de \| jp \| mc	Wed Dec 14 12:02:19 EST 2000	skyLink
test7.20001213120219.html en \| en-US \| fr \| de \| jp \| mc	Wed Dec 13 12:02:19 EST 2000	skyLink
test7.20001212120219.html en \| en-US \| fr \| de \| jp \| mc	Wed Dec 12 12:02:19 EST 2000	skyLink

COMPLETE - When loading a page, PageCurrent and PageFooter should read the Accept-Language Header and negotiate for the proper language variant, performing a FileExists check on each combination of generic version name and locale extension.
COMPLETE - Also the strings in the footer should be locale-appropriate.
COMPLETE - skyWriter uploads to the language variant of the page when appropriate, not to the time-generic variant.

COMPLETE - skyWriter will check which localized variants exist and if any do, populate a piped link list with them to display the one currently being edited and allow navigation to edit another variant. "Generic" should be at the head of the piped links to offer nav back to editing the generic. Sketch:

Editing workPage.20011213120443.en.html () : skyLink | Requests: 5

Locale: Generic | en | en-US | fr | de | jp | mc

Edit

Language: fr | it | de | es | pt | ar | he | da | nl | zh | ja | ko | none

skyCalendar

This Version:
Archived at: https://www.skybuilders.com/Users/Derek/modules/LanguageVariance.20010201142916.html

Requests

Version: 873 | Series: 3073