multilingual-brainstorming

The boundaries on the web are linguistic. An increasing number of people have multilingual websites and blogs. However, existing blog software, although localizable, is designed with the monolingual author/reader in mind. HTML specs are designed mainly for monolingual web pages.

• How should similar content in different languages (whether translated, re-phrased, abstracted) be organised and related?
• How should blogging software make this possible?
• Three levels of difficulty (or subproblems):
  • Markup
  • Interface for the reader
  • Authoring process
  • (And a fourth: integration in specific blogging tools)

We can start with a multilingual blog safari: multilingual-examples