395590 - Entity ProtocolFlagError should be rephrased

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Hendrik Maryns]

Attachment: the proposed change

The entity ProtocolFlagError 

ProtocolFlagError = Warning: Protocol handler for '%S' doesn't advertise a security policy.  While loads of such protocols are allowed for now, this is deprecated.  Please see the documentation in nsIProtocolHandler.idl.

in the file /mozilla/dom/locales/en-US/chrome/security/caps.properties is unclear due to the ambiguity of the word ‘loads’.  It could be interpreted as ‘a lot of such protocols are allowed’.

I propose it be changed to ‘... loading of such protocols is allowed...’

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 280268 [details] [diff] [review]
the proposed change

I'm the wrong person to review this. Please look at the cvs history of that file to find a good one.

For reference, I don't think this needs a key change, as it's not semantics. Check out the other English localizations (i.e., en-GB), though.

Comment 2

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

You should poke the .l10n newsgroup, though, as many locales do translate "loads" in the "a lot of" meaning. :/

Comment 3

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Posted to .l10n.

Comment 4

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

Comment on attachment 280268 [details] [diff] [review]
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Boris wrote the original and I trust his English better than mine :-).

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 280268 [details] [diff] [review]
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Makes sense.  It's interesting that people would think of the "loads" colloquialism in this context...  I sure didn't.  ;)

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Comment on attachment 280268 [details] [diff] [review]
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Just a wording change.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This needs approval before it can be checkin-needed.

Comment 8

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Just as a warning sign, "just a wording change" doesn't exist.

This is fine because:

- the change clarifies the English sentence without a semantic change
- the problem has been announced in the l10n newsgroup
- I've just CC'ed Mark for en-GB to watch out for this, though I don't think he started on Fx3 yet.

Comment 9

[Damon Sicore (:damons)]

Comment on attachment 280268 [details] [diff] [review]
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a=release drivers

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Checking in dom/locales/en-US/chrome/security/caps.properties;
/cvsroot/mozilla/dom/locales/en-US/chrome/security/caps.properties,v  <--  caps.properties
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2
done