Firefox 3 Hacks (O’Reilly Japan)
August 10th, 2008 by Gen KanaiO’Reilly Japan will be publishing Firefox 3 Hacks (Amazon Japan), authored completely by Japanese authors including:
- 江村 秀之(えむら ひでゆき) or Hideyuki (level) Emura who you may know has the most popular Mozilla blog in Japan: えむもじら and was profiled by CNet Japan last year before Mozilla 24: Mozillaの成長を見つめ続ける、クールで熱い老舗サイトの運営者〜江村秀之（level）氏／えむもじら運営
- 池田 譲治(いけだ じょうじ) or Joji Ikeda who is one of the leading Mozillagumi members and is famous for his translations of Mozilla-related information. Ikeda-san blogs at Firefox Hacks 翻訳日記 and was profiled by CNet Japan last year before Mozilla 24:心に伝わるテクニカルワードを探求する翻訳のエキスパート 〜池田譲治さん／Mozilla Japan 翻訳部門 和訳アドバイザー
- 下田 洋志(しもだ ひろし) or Hiroshi (piro) Shimoda who many of you know is a prolific Mozilla add-ons developer, XUL expert, blogger at outsider reflex, and very talented designer to boot.
- 松澤 太郎(まつざわ たろう) or Taro Matsuzawa, who most of you know as “BTM” or “kumicho” and is one of the key members of the Mozillagumi, XUL developer, and blogs at すめるまん Broken Diary
- dynamis(でゅなみす) or Tomoya Asai, who most of you know as the localization peer in Japan and recently joined Mozilla Japan full-time. dynamis runs his own 7ème Gnossienne blog, but also runs the important Mozilla Japan 翻訳部門フォーラム and the Mozilla Japan L10N Forum where the Japanese Mozilla community discuss l10n issues and solutions.
We’re very lucky to have such active and prolific developers and localizers and authors in Japan. With the previous pocket-guide to Firefox 3, and now this expert’s guide, Japanese Firefox users and developers have a pair of great books to help them enjoy Firefox 3 to it’s fullest.
Emura-san’s blog post about the book has an image of the dust jacket cover which some of you might enjoy: Firefox 3 Hacks 予約可能に.