1247017 - [ne-NP] Firefox protocol handler setup for Nepali

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ne-NP / Nepali (Nepal), defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Protocol handlers allow links like mailto:[e-mail] to be handled by a webmail application.

In order to do that, the site needs to support a special API described on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web-based_protocol_handlers.

For en-US, we're currently shipping with GMail and Yahoo! Mail for mailto:, 30boxes for webcal: and Mibbit for irc: urls. For Nepali, we'd like to do that, too.

First, the localization team and flod (Francesco Lodolo) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. Nootan, we'll need your input on this. The guidelines for making recommendations are on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization>. Following that, the evangelism team reaches out to try to get the vendor to support protocol handlers. http://people.mozilla.org/~ctalbert/ has test cases for mailto:.

Once that happens, flod will take over the actual implementation, which will need to change the gecko.handlerService.* entries in browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties. Please don't make changes to that file without getting a positive review by flod or somebody else appointed by flod/Stas on a patch for that change upfront.

The Nepali team and flod will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Since ne-NP had very ancient settings in the repository, I reset everything to en-US values for the first builds
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/ne-NP/rev/cc1c8cf7336f

That means:
* Yahoo! Mail and Gmail for mailto:
* Mibbit for IRC
* 30Boxes for webcal

Comment 2

[Nootan Ghimire]

I think en-US values work just fine.

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Thanks. Closing this one.