37891 - localisable strings in Netscape application program

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, defect, P3)

Description

[Laura Slevin]

there are localisable strings contained in the Netscape Application program:

Alert :
This program requires at least system 8.5 to run

Comment 1

[Laura Slevin]

Localisability issue.
setting keyword to nsbeta2 cc'ing fergus

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

[nsbeta2-]

Comment 3

[Dawn Endico]

leger is no longer @netscape. changing qa contact to component's default

Comment 4

[chris hofmann]

->msanz

Comment 5

[danielmc]

add kw l12y

Comment 6

[msanz]

laura, can you add more info? Where are the strings hardcoded? Is this in the
Mac installer? If so, please reassign to sgehani.

Comment 7

[danielmc]

This is a dialog in the Netscape 6 Application. Open in Resourcer and look at 
the ALRT Type.

Comment 8

[msanz]

reassigning to samir and adding nsbeta1

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

The strings are not hardcoded.  They are in a resource (dialog resource) as
cited above.  CC'ing dveditz for triage input.

Comment 10

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The string appears to be wrong, too. We require 8.6

This is the browser, not the installer, assigning to pchen to figure out who 
should own this. I assume this is not going to change, though.

Comment 11

[Michele Carlson]

Daniel - is this a hardcoded string? If so, Paul this needs to be fixed for beta1.

Comment 12

[Ying-Lin Xia]

This is not a hardcoded string, but it's a "hardcoded" rsrc (ALRT 5000) in the 
app binary. For localization, it's better to move this dialog contents (the 
message string plus the OK button name) into a text file.

Comment 13

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Vishy - Why was this one minused? I thought we agreed to fix all hard coded
stuff. Please assign M0.9.1

Comment 14

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Daniel is this still an issue?

Comment 15

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

our non-platform-specific, localizable mechanism for resources assumes chrome 
and a bunch of other stuff got off the ground. Is it really unreasonable to 
have one or two platform-specific bootstrapping error strings localized in a 
platform-specific way?

Comment 16

[Michele Carlson]

Ray, can you comment on this bug please?

Comment 17

[rchen]

It seems laura was talking about alert in java script. I believe alert has been 
taken care of. Laura, can you verify your problem is still valid?

Comment 18

[Cindy Roberts]

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.

Comment 19

[elaineking]

keyword nsbranch removed since it now has nsbranch-, per pdt mtg.

Comment 20

[Peter Trudelle]

mac resources are localizable just not the mozilla way, marking wontfix