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Is that a Kubla on your shoulder?
A little project named "Kubla" keeps coming up in mozilla.com meetings, and has sparked some discussions about policy, announcing projects, and general openness. I think what caused the debate to center around this particular project was my mentioning that Kubla had "met it's first milestone on time." I think people interpreted this as meaning that the project was pretty far along - in reality, the project is a few weeks old, and the first milestone was setting up a framework and making some decisions about where we are going. So, since Kubla has achieved so much fame already, an ... Read More »
AMO Preview Updates
The preview site was refreshed today with another set of updates: Due to public outcry, the right-hand menu is now on the left Condensed browse lists and search results, using javascript to expand sections Added the much anticipated "sandbox" feature (a more complete description below) Added RSS feeds to pages including per category feeds, search results, and more Migrated the visual theme from the current AMO Localized more pages and added more translations Many bug fixes The sandbox is a new system for managing which add-ons are publicly viewable. Justin Scott introduced the concept a few months ago, and the first revision is ready ... Read More »
AMO Preview Updates
A new round of updates have been pushed to the preview site, including: Added a user's information page Added breadcrumbs and a search box to every page Added the plugins page, linked to from the navigation menu Polished some rough edges, including: Using ngettext() for pluralization Added friendlier messages (eg. when a new user registers) Attempts to guess a users language from their browser headers There is a full list of feedback we've addressed on the wiki Thanks for all your comments. Your ideas and suggestions help us to prioritize what changes will be in our next ... Read More »
Teaching CakePHP to be Multilingual (part 1)
The international community is an essential part of Firefox. Whether it's coming up with ideas, writing code, or just using the browser every day, Firefox is influenced by people around the globe. In an effort to embrace this relationship we decided that Remora, the next version of addons.mozilla.org, should be localizable. I see that Mike shaver published the first in a series of articles on how volunteers could localize AMO3 into different language already. I'd like to build off the definitions he provided, but get into the ... Read More »
AMO Preview Updates
Since we launched the AMO 3.0 preview last week, we've been busy reading feedback and implementing fixes. Here is a brief list of changes that have been merged into the alpha since last week: A reorganized front page New static content translations including French, Japanese, and Korean Added the "Search Engines" page, linked from the right-hand menu Fixed some of the unfriendly error pages (including a new 404 page) And many more fixes from our feedback page Thanks for all the comments and bugs you've filed so far. If you've got more ideas or changes you'd like ... Read More »
