Comments on: New Localized Download Pages

By: John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:34:33 +0000

I can’t wait to see en-GB in the URL!

By: pascalc

pascalc — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:09:40 +0000

Friedel, http://mozilla.com/af/ is fine ofr quick communication, officially though, the url will be http://www.mozilla.com/af/ even though we currently show http://af.www.mozilla.com/af/ (we will drop the sub-domain soon for all locales, it’s just confusing).

Also, getfirefox.com will soon redirect users having af as their first accepted language header parameter to mozilla.com/af

By: F Wolff

F Wolff — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:04:03 +0000

Typing in Mozilla.com in my browser and being greeted in a 100% Afrikaans page (save the copyright message) makes me feel like a first class citizen of the web. It is not a feeling I get with many websites, not even in South Africa.

Many, many thanks for this. I’d like to hear from the web team what the shortest, simplest URL is that will definitely make us end at this page. From a quick experiment it seems to be http://mozilla.com/af/ (af.mozilla.com doesn’t work)

Thanks again.

By: pascalc

pascalc — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:42:03 +0000

Goofy, that’s actually something I have also been thinking of

By: pascalc

pascalc — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:38:37 +0000

Tomer, there is a block of text in the page to promote a local community site. In the case of Afrikaans, it is translate.org, but for locales with a support/news community, that would be more a mozillazine like site

By: jean-bernard "Goofy" Marcon

jean-bernard "Goofy" Marcon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:38:11 +0000

Congratulations to the Afrikaans language team and all Mozilla support for this commitment!
Sure it is a crucial step.
Now to ensure “an Afrikaans users will get a full Afrikaans experience”, may I suggest that some of the most popular extensions should be available for Afrikaans as well. I am thinking of extensions like Adblock, Downthemall, Noscript…
Once the 5 or 10 top ones are translated, why not set a link on this new page pointing to the list of available stuff for af-ZA?

Of course, BabelZilla is welcoming translators for af-ZA if they wish to indulge a little time on that.
Currently, there is only one really active translator for this language (can be contacted here http://www.leuce.com/).

By: Tomer Cohen

Tomer Cohen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:10:59 +0000

I think that we should provide there as much as local content as possible, and even provide visible link to the local community website, so it will be introduction to the product and the community.

I am working for some time on providing bidi support to that page. Thanks for asking.

By: Dwayne Bailey

Dwayne Bailey — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:32:37 +0000

Tears of joy!

This is solving one of the most frustrating aspects involved in promoting Firefox in South Africa. We focus firstly on the localisation of the product and less on the other site aspects. So we simply could not point our users to a single Afrikaans page that we new would deliver the Afrikaans Firefox that we wanted them to install. There computer is most likely in English so they get told to install English. Also most South African’s will not change their browsers preferred language, so that isnot an option for us. What we did was to point them to the all.html page, which is still in English. That works for Afrikaans, since its on the top of the list, but it really won’t work for anyone else.

Now we can make press releases that point to an Afrikaans page, an Afrikaans users will get a full Afrikaans experience when they go to download Firefox and we will can rest assured that our users are getting what we want them to get.

@seth: Please share my heartfelt thanks with the team, this really has made me very happy today