Certainly, I completely agree. What I do not understand is the way how the #translated mechanisme works in Squeak. As far as I can see there is nothing like a dynamic scope but just a global variable, something that certainly does not work in the context of a Web application. Yes, that's what we do in productive applications. In development mode the translated string object can display a red warning and potentially a link to an editor to translate the actual string ;-) Do you really think so? At least for Magritte there shouldn't be too much hardcoded strings anymore, as I use it in several productive multi-lingual applications. For Pier this is indeed a different story. Unfortunately all the labels and comments in the descriptions are hardcoded, due to the fact that I only used it in english contexts. Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch