442921 - [kn] Firefox 3 protocol handler setup for Kannada

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: kn / Kannada, 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. I guess that gmail and msn live mail should be ready for inclusion, too. For Kannada, we'd like to do that, too.

First, the localization team and Mic (Michal Berman) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. Hari, Shankar, 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 kn/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

[Mic Berman]

please confirm final list of defaults could be:

mailto: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft LiveMail
webcal: 30boxes

Comment 2

[Shankar Prasad]

Mic,
That should be ok, you can go ahead with this defauts

Comment 3

[Mic Berman]

great, thanks

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Mic, add kn to the list of automatic rewrites for gmail and msn? Once you did, please resolve the bug as FIXED?

Comment 5

[Mic Berman]

done