Comments on: Mibbit as an IRC protocol handler in Firefox 3.1 in your locale http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-handler-in-firefox-31-in-your-locale Localizing Mozilla Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:14:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: stas http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-handler-in-firefox-31-in-your-locale/comment-page-1#comment-448 stas Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:13:12 +0000 http://informationisart.com/stas/?p=209#comment-448 @Jesse Yes, Firefox will treat Mibbit as any other registered handler. See this screenshot: http://informationisart.com/stas/screenshots/Launch_Application-20090223-100007.jpg Re: localization: my hope is that by including Mibbit in Firefox we will create synergy between these two communities. I know that our localizers are busy with Mozilla products already, but if they find time, I would definitely love to see contributions to Mibbit's l10n by Mozilla folks. Dynamis (from the Japanese l10n team) also suggested that this could be a good idea (in case there were no good local alternatives). I'll ping Mibbit guys to see how much work a UI localization would require. @Jesse
Yes, Firefox will treat Mibbit as any other registered handler. See this screenshot: http://informationisart.com/stas/screenshots/Launch_Application-20090223-100007.jpg

Re: localization: my hope is that by including Mibbit in Firefox we will create synergy between these two communities. I know that our localizers are busy with Mozilla products already, but if they find time, I would definitely love to see contributions to Mibbit’s l10n by Mozilla folks. Dynamis (from the Japanese l10n team) also suggested that this could be a good idea (in case there were no good local alternatives).

I’ll ping Mibbit guys to see how much work a UI localization would require.

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-handler-in-firefox-31-in-your-locale/comment-page-1#comment-447 Jesse Ruderman Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:31:58 +0000 http://informationisart.com/stas/?p=209#comment-447 If I have an IRC client installed (e.g. Colloquy), what will Firefox do? Will it ask me to choose between Colloquy and Mibbit the first time I click an irc link? Should we encourage Firefox localizers to volunteer their localization skills to Mibbit as well? If I have an IRC client installed (e.g. Colloquy), what will Firefox do? Will it ask me to choose between Colloquy and Mibbit the first time I click an irc link?

Should we encourage Firefox localizers to volunteer their localization skills to Mibbit as well?

]]> By: stas http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-handler-in-firefox-31-in-your-locale/comment-page-1#comment-446 stas Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:58:30 +0000 http://informationisart.com/stas/?p=209#comment-446 @James Let me quote what the Mibbit guys said in bug 435687 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435687#c27) "FYI, we have WEBIRC setup with 327 IRC networks now, which means that on these networks, your real IP is passed along, and used as the host. So cloaking, banning, glines, open proxy scans etc all work as they should. For the remaining networks that do not yet support WEBIRC, we do have to send the users IP in hex as the ident, so that channel ops can ban individuals. However, this has not really been a big issue over the last year." @James
Let me quote what the Mibbit guys said in bug 435687 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435687#c27)

“FYI, we have WEBIRC setup with 327 IRC networks now, which means that on these networks, your real IP is passed along, and used as the host. So cloaking, banning, glines, open proxy scans etc all work as they should.

For the remaining networks that do not yet support WEBIRC, we do have to send the users IP in hex as the ident, so that channel ops can ban individuals. However, this has not really been a big issue over the last year.”

]]> By: james http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-handler-in-firefox-31-in-your-locale/comment-page-1#comment-445 james Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:01:46 +0000 http://informationisart.com/stas/?p=209#comment-445 Or you could include Chatzilla by default. Web based IRC clients are not good for IRC servers and administrators. With lots of ISPs, at least non-North American ones, autoproxying all web connections, this reduces the ability of IRC administrators and channel operators to uniquely ban abusers (even more than mibbit with non-proxied web connections, which required banning of *ident@*.mibbit.etc, instead of *@ip, and made banning specific netblocks a tedious and difficult chore). Or you could include Chatzilla by default. Web based IRC clients are not good for IRC servers and administrators. With lots of ISPs, at least non-North American ones, autoproxying all web connections, this reduces the ability of IRC administrators and channel operators to uniquely ban abusers (even more than mibbit with non-proxied web connections, which required banning of *ident@*.mibbit.etc, instead of *@ip, and made banning specific netblocks a tedious and difficult chore).

]]> By: Eric Shepherd http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-handler-in-firefox-31-in-your-locale/comment-page-1#comment-443 Eric Shepherd Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:25:31 +0000 http://informationisart.com/stas/?p=209#comment-443 This is very, very exciting for me, since it will make MDC much more viable for folks that don't happen to have a standalone IRC app installed for whatever reason. Great, great news. This is very, very exciting for me, since it will make MDC much more viable for folks that don’t happen to have a standalone IRC app installed for whatever reason. Great, great news.

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