One of the untold stories of Firefox is that localizing Firefox is something different. Inside our localization community, it is an often heard complaint that we're doing this while every other project in its sane mind does that. I have been...
I've been doing some investigation on localization architectures in the last two months or so, triggered by parts of the 50-2-100 thread in .l10n and .planning. In particular, I've been reading the archives of translate-i18n, which happens to be...
I need to hand in the schedule for the Mozilla Developers Room at FOSDEM in by the end of the week, so I'm making a last call for presentations. If you want to give a talk, please add yourself on the wiki.
I've just spent the second half day trying to get the aOW plugin to work. Honestly, just to install its dependencies. So instead of trying to find out if aOW could help me in my work, I spent some quality time with each and every UE bug that the plugin …
So I successfully hacked my python stuff to create jars, and to do so for python 2.5, too. Testing it in the MozillaBuildRC1, here's time make -C browser chrome for the current code and my new hack: real 0m21.812s user 0m20.731s sys 0m11.761s vs....
As a heads-up, I'm making some progress to use a single python process per jar.mn in bug 361583. AFAICT, I have all the odd ends figured out to merely run one python script per jar.mn, instead of starting a two perl processes per jar.mn, and one per …
If you have an idea what you would like to do in or around the Mozilla Developers Room at FOSDEM 2007, please add that to the wiki. In particular, if you want to present something, that'd be good to know early, so that folks tempted to attend...
As there were more people talking about this than I recall, here's the public correction on what I though would be true: I see no way to hook into expat to make it resolve an entity. See the XML_TOK_ENTITY_REF handling in xmlparse.c. We can...
I'm looking for code that generates statemachines in different languages from a single source. I peek at SMC, but I'm sure there's more. I'm looking for js, python, C/C++ output. Even more so, it should be kind-of simple to understand the syntax,...
I've spent the last few days catching up on years of archive of translate-i18n. It's been an interesting read so far, the challenges we face are the same in other places, and are pretty independent of the used technology. Given the recent...