Posts Tagged ‘l10n’
Mozilla Service Week – First L10n Release
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? The following assets are translated: 230+ pieces of content (in the messages.po file) 20 question faq.php which is an HTML file Site header image Several affiliate buttons Service Week Flyer In addition to the 4 locales listed above, several other communities are busy working on ... Read More »
Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 3: Challenges for Tools
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 2 of the series, I explained some organizational challenges when growing a web localization team healthily. In this post, I want to outline some of issues localization tools are facing on the web. Note: In this article, the term localization tools ... Read More »
Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 2: Organizational Challenges
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 post, I described the problem we are facing with an increasing amount of localizable websites under the roof of the Mozilla project. In short, I concluded that getting more possible localizers involved is a way to solve this -- ... Read More »
Improving Mozilla Web Localization, Part 1: What’s Wrong?
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 them. Please note that none of this is authoritative -- it's a complicated topic and making mistakes is easy. If you feel something is misrepresented, please leave a comment and speak your mind. The status quo Here at Mozilla, we are very ... Read More »
The Curious Case of the Giant Scrollbar
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 all the way to the left, nothing was there. Another reason this was odd was the scrollbar only appeared in right-to-left (RTL) languages. Inspecting the page via Firebug didn't give any clues as to what was causing the ... Read More »
