Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

On 6/14/07, Paul Scott <pscott AT uwc.ac.za> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:03 -0700, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> > The current proposal is to develop a Javascript-based "widget" that
> > would allow a developer to drop a license chooser into a form in their
> > application simply by including the script tag.  I've written up a
> > brief specification/requirements list
> > (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/JsWidget).
>
> I presume that the locales will stay intact?

Localization is something we need to figure out how to do.  My
instinct is to do the following:

* Allow someone to explicitly request a specific locale, ie,
 <script src="http://cc.org/widget/de/source.js";></script>
* If they request the "generic" version, use the browser's language
information to return the "best guess".  So if the default language in
the browser is pt-BR, we'd return the Brazilian Portuguese version
even if the generic one was requested.

Does that sound reasonable?

> The only other issue is that the JS should be strict enough to be able
> to be used in XUL applications as well as XHTML-Strict.

I don't think it'd be appropriate for XUL applications -- for one
thing it'll be using document.write to inject an HTML <input> element
(well, several of them), which doesn't always work well in XUL in my
experience (iirc you have to do some special namespace declarations to
mix XUL and HTML).

> If some coding time is needed, please don't hesitate to call on me.
>
> --Paul
>
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