11.05.10 - 08:24am
So I’ve been at the W3 MultilingualWeb Workshop in Madrid last week, and I guess there are a few things worth reporting. MultilingualWeb is a project bound to host 4 workshops to bring people from different fields together to see how standards and best practices (existing and not) can help the web. Being mozilla, we [...]
10.04.10 - 09:06am
I’ve just uploaded version 0.9 of compare-locales onto pypi. It’s finally the version that does all the fancy value checks that I’ve been talking about for a while, and that some of the localizers have seen flying by in their bugmail. Here’s what it does: For DTDs, I create fake xml docs, and try to [...]
08.31.10 - 08:10am
For our l20n project, we’ll want to compile l20n source files into javascript. We want to do that both at compile time, and at runtime. For runtime, I’ll need the compiler written in js by all chances, and for compile time, I’d rather go with python so that I don’t have build a HOST_JS or [...]
07.27.10 - 12:16pm
I’ve been talking with Seth today on how we can answer questions about the status of l10n. My grumpy argument was that I wouldn’t know how to make graphs over time actually show progress, instead of just “failure”. I had two naive graphs, one is showing all missing strings summed up over all locales. That [...]
07.26.10 - 01:44pm
We intend to move from components per locale in the “Mozilla Localizations” product to a matrix of products per locale, and components for each of Firefox, Thunderbird, et al. I’ve created an add-on to set up the products and components and laid out in the newsgroup thread. I wanted to share some screen shots on [...]
07.21.10 - 03:02pm
I heard there was interest to join the l20n discussions, so I’ll do an “even more public” invitation to tomorrow’s l20n call. We’re going to have that call on conference bridge 206 at 11 am CET, standard mozilla conference call details. Blame Seth for being almost-european these days, even if it’s just timezone. (No, not [...]
06.24.10 - 07:20am
It’s been a while, but I’ll take a stab at what we did to localize Lorentz, i.e., how did we add strings to a stable branch? The underlying principle was add-on compatibility, that is, language packs that are out there and compatible with 3.6.* needed to continue to work. The second principle was that while [...]
06.07.10 - 07:37am
I wasn’t all happy with how django helped me in coding the try-talos visualization, so I recreated this based on node.js. The result is a single project on github, talos-node, that just requires you to get a local install of node.js. It will actually incrementally render the pages as it does server side loads, so [...]
05.31.10 - 03:13pm
Sorry for the off-topic post. President Köhler stepped down. Not a bad move, in my opinion. He came out of Afghanistan and promised our soldiers out there to get support for them back home. And he got back with political cat fight. After the discussion here in Germany of the past few days, he would [...]
05.20.10 - 03:15am
I’ve started to hack on the bcp47 patch, and as I add complexity to the chrome registry code path, I’ll actually need to look at performance results. Being a good citizen, I’ll start with try-server builds. TBH, the prospect of having to do that kept me from starting on this patch for a while, and [...]
