[Help-smalltalk] Iliad: LTR vs RTL

[Bèrto ëd Sèra]

Hi again,

Before I start reinventing the wheel, is there any consolidated way to
switch between Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right layouts (as in English
vs Arabic) in Iliad? I have more problems in this area, but the only
urgent one is this.

Our users may change UI language at any time, so (to remain within
Joachim Jaeckel's structure) I need to switch css in #pageUpdate AND
to change the layout in #pageTemplate, depending on the layout chosen
in the session.

Yet, this kinda looks like a problem just any CMS will have, so I
suppose there should be a way to manage it implemented or planned in
Iliad. So I'd rather check before producing lotsa duped code. I will
have to make extensions to this mechanism anyway, as we are requested
to manage (the heck knows how, at the moment) less common layouts,
like bottom-down (American Sign Language and Traditional Chinese use
them). But that part looks like of much lesser general interest, so I
sadly don't expect to find any "readymade" for it.

PS we are not making a CMS. We are making a huge dictionary from any
to any language. But the problems are ~ the same, in terms of UI
localization.

Berto

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