[Caminol10n] [Camino 2 l10n] DOM strings, documentation URLs

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 3:22 PM +0200 on 6/16/09, Marcello Testi wrote:

>We're also working on Camino 2 localization and I wanted to notify 
>the teams about a bug I filed, regarding the file 
>global_locale_dom_dom_properties.strings
>Several strings in it point to the Mozilla Developer Center, but 
>with wrong URLs.
>
>There are 2 sides of this issue:
>- we shouldn't fix the URLs, which should be handled by MDC with 
>proper redirects

Regardless of what you do in Camino translations, MDC needs to fix 
its links, which is why I moved Marcello's bug to the MDC component 
:-)

>- since, there are few MDC translations, which happen to match 
>several Camino translations, I wonder if MDC has a language 
>detection mechanism in place or we should localize the URLs.

The old MediaWiki-based MDC did content-negotiation for languages if 
you gave it a URL without an embedded language code, but the new 
DekiWiki-based one does not appear to do so (it gives a 404-type 
page instead.)

I checked a couple of translations of the Firefox version of that 
file, and of those I checked, only Polish used the localized MDC URL 
instead of the English URL.  (I'm not even sure if these strings are 
used or visible in Camino; that was the next file for me to test on 
my list at 
http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/User:Sardisson/Localizing_Gecko_Strings 
)

If your language has a localized version of those documents on MDC, 
feel free to use the current, correct URL for those strings.  If not, 
feel free to use the correct English URL instead of the current 
broken one.

Also, I'm not sure if I've said this before or not, but for the vast 
majority of these Gecko strings files, you can borrow the existing 
translation from Firefox 3.0.x (from the various .jar files in the 
application, or directly from the l10n repository itself -- see 
http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n/ ) and transform the text into the 
appropriate format if you like the Firefox translation.  I've marked 
on the Localizing_Gecko_Strings page the files I know right now 
*cannot* be created based on the copies in Firefox, but I can't say 
for certain that list is complete right now.

As always, let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for your work!

Smokey
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