590152 - [son] Firefox protocol handler setup for Songhay

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: son / Songhay, 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 Songhay, 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. Mohomodou, 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

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

There are brand name translations in
http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/son/diff/259b41fe06ca/browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties,
which should've undergone review before landing.

Stas, can you do a post-landing review?

Comment 2

[Dwayne Bailey]

Not sure if we can simply revert the brand translations for this.  Let us know how best to proceed in addressing the translations.

Comment 3

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

Dwayne,

would you please revert this to the en-US defaults, and then propose any changes you'd like to make here?

Comment 4

[Dwayne Bailey]

Reverted to en-US defaults in changeset 8bd4c1995ec3

Comment 5

[Dwayne Bailey]

I propose that we use either French or Fulah settings for this.

Comment 6

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

Dwayne,

Fulah uses the same file as French. Please attach a patch and flag me for a review.

Comment 7

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

As per chat with Dwayne, I'm committing a patch created upon comment 6.

Pushed to:

aurora - http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/son/rev/e681d48ef68f
beta - http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/son/rev/fa9a3d5ad7f0

Thanks!