I hate fighting with a technology to get it to do what I want because it means I either have the wrong expectation or wrong technology.

With web development I expect strict web standard support and clean code that is easy to maintain.

It seems that globalization often makes the wish list of many a web site until the client realizes professional quality translations require a significant investment of time and money.

On occasion however smaller web applications with their limited vocabulary are prime targets for localizationlocalization globalization and it can be quite feasible to translate the couple of hundred strings involved.