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February 13, 2008
Alert readers of YDN may have noticed a recent (tiny, cryptic) addition, "r3," way down at the bottom of our navigation bar. The European branch of Yahoo! has been using r3 and its ancestors for almost a decade to build and localise Web sites--including Yahoo! Answers--for over twenty different languages and countries.
Essentially an offline processing tool, r3 stitches together template fragments containing a special markup syntax
with HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Translations of text to languages other than the primary source--usually English--are stored in a database and automatically included at render time.
We're thrilled to announce that r3 has been released under a FreeBSD open source license. Check out the documentation for more details, and stay tuned for a series of introductory tutorials here on the YDN blog over the next few weeks.
Mark Norman Francis
Posted at February 13, 2008 12:54 PM
Well done Norm for getting this up - up here at Dundee Uni we're looking at i18n & l10n, and I look forward to finally getting to play about with r3. Cheers!
Posted by: Colin Gourlay at February 13, 2008 4:52 PM
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