492971 - [ta-LK] Firefox 3.5 protocol handler setup for Tamil (Sri Lanka)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ta-LK / Tamil (Sri Lanka), 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 Tamil (Sri Lanka), 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. Sarves, 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

[Seth Bindernagel]

We are nearing the release of Firefox 3.5.  Has anyone been able to investigate options for protocol handlers for the ta-LK version of Firefox?  We can go with defaults, but please let us know what might be best for the ta-LK users.  Thanks!  :)

Comment 2

[Sarves]

Hello Seth,

Again we do not have any specific protocol handlers for our language :) 
Therefore we are happy to go with default ones. 

Thanks,
Sarves

Comment 3

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Sounds good. Thanks Sarves. Don't hesitate to file a new bug if you find a good suggestion for a protocol handler for ta-LK.