562066 - [ilo] Firefox 3.6 protocol handler setup for Iloko

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Mozilla Localizations :: ilo / Iloko, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Protocol handlers are a new feature in Firefox 3.6 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 Iloko, 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. Joseph, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization>. 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]

Ping.  Any thoughts on this bug?  We need to move it forward if we want to ship an Iloko version of Firefox.

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

This bug hasn't seen activity in a while, resolving INCOMPLETE.

Once we get someone to pick Iloko up again, we'll file new bugs with the templates that are then current.