Directions In Architectural Redesign

Myk Melez myk at mozilla.org
Fri Jan 23 13:40:43 UTC 2004


Gervase Markham wrote:

> We probably want to be using numbers internally for each status and 
> resolution, and translating them to strings at display time:
>
> [% status_descs.$status %]

We may instead want to use unique strings, which can still be translated 
to other strings at display time but make more sense to developers (i.e. 
the equivalent of entities when used for localization in Mozilla).  They 
also serve as a fallback when a localized string is unavailable.

-myk




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