Application Programming Interface, or API for short, is how computer programs talk to each other. As of the last week of September Pontoon exposes data about projects and locales through a publicly available API. In this first iteration we focused … Continue reading
L20n is a new localization framework for Firefox and Gecko. Here’s what you need to know if you’re a Firefox front-end developer. Gecko’s current localization framework hasn’t changed in the last two decades. It is based on file formats which … Continue reading
Earlier this week I came back from the Ljubljana Localization Hackathon which took place over the weekend. It was an inspiring meetup focused on translating Mozilla projects. I left full of energy and ideas and happy to have met many … Continue reading
We’re working on bringing L20n to Firefox and Gecko this summer. Here’s what you need to know if you’re a localizer. L20n was a big part of the MozLondon All Hands work week. Jeff’s write-up on the All Hands will … Continue reading
L20n’s JS lib is getting test cases and better documentation to make the code easier to work with and understand. The JavaScript implementation of L20n is composed of 4 main components: context (stas), which handles resource loading, locale fallback and … Continue reading
(This is a crosspost from my blog: http://informationisart.com/8/. Check it out for better code formatting and syntax highlighting.) With L20n’s DOM overlays, developers can amend localized strings with additional non-localizable HTML markup. This improves the separation of content and structure … Continue reading
(This is a crosspost from my blog: http://informationisart.com/7/) This is the first localization update about Boot to Gecko and Gaia, where I’ll be summarizing the development and the progress of the localization plan for B2G. There are a few tracks … Continue reading
Localizers and developers alike are instructed on some of L20n’s basic syntactic elements. Both can learn how these changes in syntax will affect L10n on each side of the fence. Since the examples provided below may be complicated for some … Continue reading
I’m Polish and I currently live in Warsaw. I don’t seem to be able to stay at one place for too long, however. I’ve lived in France, Switzerland, and the US and I speak English and French. I also learned … Continue reading