636984 - [zu] Firefox 4.0 protocol handler setup for Zulu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Mozilla Localizations :: zu / Zulu, 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 Zulu, 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. Dwayne, 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.

Probably a good deal here can be re-used from the en-ZA setup.

Comment 1

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

Dwayne,

en-ZA is all done - can you please prepare a patch?

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We've put the effort to ship Firefox Desktop in Zulu on hold.

If there's renewed interest, we should get a new set of bugs on file at this point, I guess. Given how much changed since this was filed.