{"id":1307,"date":"2006-03-30T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T08:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/Internationaltmp\/2006\/03\/30\/re_using_strings_in_scripted_content\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:50:10","slug":"re_using_strings_in_scripted_content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2006\/03\/30\/re_using_strings_in_scripted_content\/","title":{"rendered":"New article: Re-using Strings in Scripted Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/articles\/text-reuse\/\">Read the article<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The article looks at a particular design and development practise that can cause major problems for translation of content. Many programmers and designers decide that if a particular string is used in many places, they will use copies of the same string rather than implement many identical strings. String reuse is not necessarily a bad thing. The trick is to know what constitutes a good candidate for reuse and what does not. If you get it wrong, you can be creating an insuperable obstacle to good localization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the article The article looks at a particular design and development practise that can cause major problems for translation of content. Many programmers and designers decide that if a particular string is used in many places, they will use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2006\/03\/30\/re_using_strings_in_scripted_content\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,10],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-highlight","category-new-resource","tag-article-text-reuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}