1303271 - [tl] Firefox protocol handler setup for Tagalog

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: tl / Tagalog, defect)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

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 Tagalog, 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. Robert, 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 Tagalog team and flod will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Robert BOB Reyes]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #0)
> 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 Tagalog, 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. Robert, 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 Tagalog team and flod will be driving this bug to completion.

Thanks, Flod! Since Tagalog/Filipino is pretty much the same (and based) on the standards of EN-US, GMail and Yahoo! Mail for mailto:, 30boxes for webcal: and Mibbit for irc: urls can be used.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Landed in bug 1303270
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/tl/rev/d7a3f8a2415d34c2e16a0ec7a46275ac439b6d03