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Offline till March 12

A quick update: I’m defending my thesis this Thursday, so I’m taking the next two days off to prepare for the defense (and buy a new suit :). I’ll continue the Fennec l10n productization guidelines series (part 1, part 2) right after becoming a graduate of Warsaw School of Economics. Hopefully, that is. See you [...]


Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 2. Purpose of productization

In the last post I announced a short series about productization of Fennec. This is the second post in the series.
Before we actually start talking about the default services and best choices, we should provide some background on why’s and what-for’s.
There are two main purposes of adding default web services to Mozilla products:

provide users [...]


Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 1. Introduction

Fennec is a XUL-based browser developed by Mozilla and designed for mobile devices. It shares much of the code with Firefox (e.g. the HTML rendering engine, bookmarking and history, download and add-ons management, JavaScript engine), but uses a different user interface, which is adapted to the mobile contexts in which it will be used.
The notion [...]


More on the l10n de-beta process

I’m happy to write this: in the upcoming Firefox 3.0.7 release (scheduled for tomorrow), four three of our beta locales will move out of the beta status!

Estonian (et)
Kannada (kn)
Telugu (te)

Congratulations to the localization teams that made it possible!
Seth already did two great posts about our process: So what does “getting new languages ready [...]