Closed Bug 79210 Opened 23 years ago Closed 16 years ago

About Mozilla dialog shold be XUL-ified and all text externalized to entities

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect, P4)

Product:
Core
Component:
Internationalization: Localization
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: karl, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: l12y) 

The About Mozilla (Help menu) should be XUL-ified and the entitites
externalized, so that it will be easier to localize. This will also make it
easier to change the name 'Mozilla' to 'Communicator' for Netscape.

As an added bonus, the dialog will also look more "native", i.e., will look like
the rest of Mozilla, even when you change themes.
Adding keyword l12y.  Changing QA contact to ylong@netscape.com.
Keywords: l12y
QA Contact: andreasb → ylong
huftis, it is not clear in your descriptopn. Do you talk about the pull down 
menu item "About Mozilla" or about page about.html?
Reassigned to verah.
Assignee: rchen → verah
--> Help
Assignee: verah → rchen
QA Contact: ylong → andreasb
QA Contact: andreasb → ylong
worksforme - the dialog is "XUL-ified" if you have that pref turned on. Enable 
it by going to prefs and clicking "Show About as modal dialog" checkbox in the 
debug panel.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
> worksforme - the dialog is "XUL-ified" if you have that pref turned on.

No, it's not. It's still just a HTML file. Reopening.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
Summary: About Mozilla dialog shold be XUL-ified → About Mozilla dialog shold be XUL-ified and all text externalized to entities
Karl, the dialog is made in XUL if you have that pref from the debug panel
checked. Do resolve back.
> Karl, the dialog is made in XUL if you have that
> pref from the debug panelchecked.

No, only the dialog "window" is in XUL. The contents is still a HTML file (an 
invalid HTML file, BTW), which is difficult to localize.
Karl, In what sense is it hard to localize?  It's just some text.  

BTW, the HTML won't be invalid after the fix for bug 88686 is in.
I don't think localzing about.html is a big deal. But if there is a easy way to 
make it a xul, we should do it. 

Reassign to the owner of the file, mcafee.

mcafee, if you don't own it, please reassign it to the right person. Thanks.
Assignee: rchen → mcafee
Status: REOPENED → NEW
over to vishy to find an owner.
Assignee: mcafee → vishy
Since its not a bug deal to localize about.html, we will not XULIfy this for now
at least. we will consider in time for the next netscape release.
Keywords: nsbeta1
nav triage team:

marking nsbeta1+, p4, and mozilla1.1
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1+
Priority: -- → P4
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.1
Keywords: nsBranch
Marking nsbranch- as it was decided in the August bug triage that we wouldn't
have enough time in eMojo to fix this.  Let's revisit for MachV.
Keywords: nsbranch-
removed keyword nsbranch since it now has nsbranch-, per pdt mtg.
Keywords: nsbranch
Blocks: 107067
Keywords: nsbranch-
rchen - reassigning to rchen since Vishy is no longer with us.
Assignee: vishy → rchen
-> pchen.
Assignee: rchen → pchen
->default assignee
Assignee: pchen → rchen
QA Contact: ylong → ruixu
Target Milestone: mozilla1.1 → ---
QA Contact: ruixu → ylong
Karl, do you mind fixing the bug?
back to pchen. CC msanz.
Assignee: rchen → pchen
->nobody
Assignee: pchen → nobody
Why was this bug being ignored until now?
I just see it has been assigned to nobody and I wonder why since it has been
more than a year since this was reported and still no fix...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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