586309 - [hy-AM] Firefox 4.0 protocol handler setup for Armenian

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: hy-AM / Armenian, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Protocol handlers are a new feature in Firefox 4.0 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 Armenian, 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. Armen, 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

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Robert, do you know if Gmail and Yahoo are in Armenian? Do you know any email websites in Armenian that might be able to handle these protocols?

The code Axel is referring to is:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser-region/region.properties#33

Stas could you help us with this one? I don't know how to find candidates for this? I personally don't read/write in Armenian so I can't give suggestions.

For further reference, I can see the web handlers explained on this page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Web-based_protocol_handlers

Comment 2

[Seth Bindernagel]

Armen, have you ever used Alexa?  

It could be a good resource to do some research:

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/AM

Comment 3

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Attachment: region properties

Stas I have been doing research on the Armenian market and it would be really really difficult to find something different than the English defaults as there are not many web services in Armenian.

Here is our proposal with some small translations for "My Yahoo!" and "Yahoo Mail".

Comment 4

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 474391 [details] [diff] [review]
region properties

This looks good to me.  r=sethb

Please check in this change to your Hg repo.  You can annotate the check in with a comment like "hy-AM protocol handlers, Bug 586309, r=sethb"

Comment 5

[Armen [:armenzg]]

This was committed by mistake in this other push:
http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/hy-AM/rev/a3372bf55351
but it matches what was reviewed.

Thanks Seth!