Re: RingLink Suggestion

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

Railroad WebRing wrote:
> 
> Here is a suggestion for the ringlink system that I have wanted
> WebRing to add for a long time, "Language Selection". I have several
> sites in my ring that are in a different language then mine. It
> would be nice if people could select their language and have that
> displayed in the ring list and next 5 functions. This way, ring
> surfers could skip sites in a language they don't know.
This would require a new field in the sites database, and I'm not ready
to do that kind of change right now. I guess that rather few people
would appreciate such a feature. Also, don't forget that there are other
link options (next, prev, rand) where the surfers don't know what site
they end up to anyway.
Why not simply let the members state the language of their sites in the
site description field? That's what I do in my own ring for sites in
other languages than English.
> Another suggestion would be to have multiple HTML Code URLs, one
> for each language if they have more then one.
This would definately make the program more complicated than most people
would like to see.
So I'm afraid that my answers are negative, at least in the short run.
But be sure, since I'm Swedish, I feel a lot of sympathy for ideas which
recognize the fact that there are other languages than English. :)
Actually, when I started to write Ringlink, I had an idea about an
option to select language as regards the admin features. But I deemed it
to be too complicated, at least for the first Ringlink generation.
/ Gunnar