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Mozilla Service Week – First L10n Release

By ozten

Congratulations to the Mozilla Community for an amazing and ongoing localization effort! We’ve shipped our first 4 locales and have several more in the works. A lot of hard work was done by our de, es, fr, and it teams to make it into the first release. What exactly has to be done for each locale?... »

Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 3: Challenges for Tools

By Frédéric Wenzel

This is the final post in a series of three posts on Next-Generation Web Localization at Mozilla. If you haven’t read it, please start with the first post. Again, this is a discussion starter and nowhere close to a final decision. Your opinion on the issue is very valuable, so please leave comments. In part... »

Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 2: Organizational Challenges

By Frédéric Wenzel

This is the second post in a series of three posts on Next-Generation Web Localization at Mozilla. If you haven’t read it, please start with the first post. Again, this is a discussion starter and nowhere close to a final decision. Your opinion on the issue is very valuable, so please leave comments. In yesterday’s... »

Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 1: What’s Wrong?

By Frédéric Wenzel

Last week I had the chance to travel to Berlin, Germany, and discuss “Localization on the Web” with our Localization (L10n)-drivers team. In a small series of three blog posts, I would like to point out what the “pain points” are for Web L10n at Mozilla, and start a discussion on how to fix... »

The Curious Case of the Giant Scrollbar

By rdoherty

Recently I fixed bug 439269 (”AMO theme has unnecessary scrollbar at the bottom”) and thought it was an interesting bug for a few reasons. To summarize the issue, for no apparent reason in right-to-left languages a really long scrollbar would appear at the bottom of the window. Even though there was a scrollbar, when you scrolled... »