Over the past weeks I’ve been looking into taking my apps into an international format for when the Chrome Web Store supports international sales.

So far Writer for Chrome is now supported in French, Spanish, and English. I do have further updates to make to it.

I do believe that localization of Chrome Apps will be useful in gaining more exposure overseas. Fortunately I did manage to use limited text in more of my apps, trying to use more visual buttons and graphics did help with more of the overall experience.

Unfortunately this does take a long time to do, and the localization process is pretty intense I don’t understand other native languages so testing is an issue in translation. It would be good if I had an international testing team. If you’re interested let me know.

I’ve noticed that the word dashboard seems to translate to tabletop in other languages.. which isn’t really what I was going for.. but any suggestions would be appreciated.

Chrome Editor is also getting an international language set, and a few new exciting features so stay tuned.