492602 - [es-CL] Firefox 3.5 protocol handler setup for Spanish (Chile)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: es-CL / Spanish (Chile), defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

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:,  30boxes for webcal: and Mibbit for irc: urls, and we're on a ongoing evangelism effort to add more. For Spanish (Chile), 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. Emilio, 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 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

[Emilio Sepulveda]

Mmm. Keep the default protocol handlers for now. We can add chilean-specific handlers in any future release (if is allowed).

Comment 2

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Yes, it is. Thanks for your comment. I'm resolving this bug as fixed. Please file new bugs if you wish to add new protocol handlers.