349944 - create /{locale}/firefox/2.0/whatsnew

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

See bug 345805; this bug tracks the creation of a "Firefox has been updated" page which will be seen by people using software update or who upgrade an existing profile. Because this update will be more than just a security and stability update, we should provide a little more content.

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

The current "Firefox as been updated" has several problems that I wanted to underline so as not to replicate the same errors for the next version:

1 Text as images isn't really a good idea, it looks better but it makes localization more difficult since you have to generate all images with the localized text. It could be done server-side but we would probably loose some visual quality (all the graphic-designer work) and therefore it would loose some of its interest. If we generate them server side, we'll also have to think of caching the already generated files. Since this page will be only displayed by Firefox users, maybe we could use SVG instead and generate it client-side, this way we can have the localized text in a variable and have probably a better visual result than with raw text.

2 The screenshots have to be localized as well, which means that if we have a tabbed browsing screenshot in the next version, websites displayed should be decided on a per-locale basis (we need to consult localizers on that, to decide on neutral web pages).

3 We should probably check the installed plugins to inform the user if his plugins are outdated or not for his security