Benefits of Implementing HTML AutoLayout Rules

Using HTML AutoLayout rules in the PT application provides the following benefits:

• Reduces the localizers' workload. They need to translate only the text strings; the user interface automatically sizes all controls at run time.
• Amortizes your globalization efforts across many localized versions of the application. The more localized versions of the application that you release, the greater the return for your globalization efforts.
• Removes the task of sizing windows (Web page or dialog box) from the localization process.
• Eliminates the possibility of introducing cosmetic bugs (sizing and position errors) in the dialog boxes and Web pages of localized versions of the application.
• Allows the developers to fix resizing problems for all localized versions of the application in one place. The localizers are no longer responsible for fixing sizing and position errors.
• Reduces testers' workload. Following HTML AutoLayout rules results in fewer cosmetic bugs to fix, which reduces retesting.
• Simplifies updating localized text on the application's Web pages and in alert dialog boxes because localizers do not have to fit new text into previously sized pages or dialog boxes.
• Makes adding controls to the user interface easier because the developers do not need to adjust the controls that are already on the Web page or dialog box.