485043 - [ta] Firefox 3.5 protocol handler setup for Tamil

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ta / Tamil, defect)

Description

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Protocol handlers are a new feature in Firefox 3.5 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 GMail and Yahoo! Mail for mailto: and 30boxes for webcal: urls, and we're on a ongoing evangelism effort to add more. We're going to add support for irc links to mibbit.com soon. For Tamil, we'd like to do that, too.

First, the localization team and Stas (Stas Malolepszy) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. Felix, 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, Stas will take over in reviewing the actual implementation, which will need to change the gecko.handlerService.* entries in ta/browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties. Please don't make changes to that file without getting a positive review by Stas or somebody else appointed by Stas/Sethb on a patch for that change upfront.

Comment 1

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hi Felix:

Any progress here?  We'd love to see your recommendations on good candidates
for protocol handlers for Tamil.  

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_guidelines provides more
information.  

If you intend to have Tamil participate in the FF 3.5 beta 4, we'll need to
have these handlers set up.  Hope you can help here and please let us know if
you have any questions.  

Thanks so much!

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/ta/diff/5be376add6e0/browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties landed without review, sadly.

Stas, can you look at this PM?

Comment 3

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

That's a r+ on all except siteSearchURL, which will be handled elsewhere. Marking as fixed. Thanks Felix. Please note though that in case of region.properties and searchengines/ we normally ask to attach patches for review *before* landing. Thanks for keeping that in mind in the future.