442892 - [gl] Firefox 3 protocol handler setup for Galician

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: gl / Galician, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Protocol handlers are a new feature in Firefox 3 that allows 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 http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web-based_protocol_handlers.

For en-US, we're currently shipping with Yahoo! Mail for mailto: and 30boxes for webcal: urls, and we're on a ongoing evangelism effort to add more. For Galician, we'd like to do that, too. Mic, I think we should be able to hook up gmail and msn live mail right away, too? CCing Pascal, too, no idea if we're making progress in protocol handlers in Spain.

First, the localization team and Mic (Michal Berman) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. Suso, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_guidelines. Following that is a reach out by the evangelism team to try to get the vendor to support protocol handlers.

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

Comment 1

[Suso Baleato]

I'll not do recommendations here, other than using, if existing those ones recommended to (in this order):

pt_PT
es_ES

Other case, use en-US

Comment 2

[Mic Berman]

from es-ES we can us Terra.es - they are working on enabling a mailto handler. 

So how about we ship with en-US defaults for now (so as not to block upcoming release) and then we add Terra once they are ready?

Comment 3

[Suso Baleato]

(In reply to comment #2)

> So how about we ship with en-US defaults for now (so as not to block upcoming
> release) and then we add Terra once they are ready?
> 

Ok by my side.

Comment 4

[Mic Berman]

we are waiting for gmail and hotmail to land too (bugs 444395 and 444399) so we can add them when they land on defaults.

Comment 5

[Mic Berman]

pike i think we can move to close this bug?

Comment 6

[Mic Berman]

added to tracking for gmail/hotmail

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Then we're set here, closing out as FIXED.

Comment 8

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Unblocking on hotmail, it was obviously not blocking.