Localizing Firefox 3: Post 1 in a series about l10n

Maybe you’ve noticed, but our Evangelism team and many others have written blog posts about the efforts that have gone into the development of Firefox 3.  For instance, you may have seen posts from the following people:

• Deb Richardson who has been blogging about the amazing new features in Firefox;
• Mark Finkle blogging about Firefox 3 Parental Controls and native JSON parsing;
• Gen Kanai writing about UTF-8 support in the Awesome Bar

Over the next few days, I’ll be linking to posts written by three of our localizers who I asked to blog about their experience localizing Firefox 3.  I tried to find three people who represented distinct areas of localization.  I asked them to tell us about their work, a bit about themselves, interesting challenges they faced along the way, and any other stuff they wanted to mention.

First up is Friedel Wolff.  You’ll remember Friedel as the lead tools developer of the Translate Toolkit.  Additionally, he works on localizing Firefox in Afrikaans.

I’ll let him tell the rest of the story…

Of course, if you have a story to share, ping me or comment in this blog.