Category Archives: Localization

MozCamp EU Berlin & Next step for BabelZilla

Learning and meeting I have been lucky enough to be invited to MozCamp Europe in Berlin last week-end and enjoyed the meeting very much on every aspect: have a better insight of what is cooking in Mozilla headquarters, discover amazing … Continue reading

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BabelZilla? Localization continues as usual!

Some of you may have noticed last week’s blogpost announcing the closure of BabelZilla by the end of this month. Do not worry, that blogpost was published accidentally. At the moment, there are some discussions going on concerning the future … Continue reading

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Let’s translate Etherpad Lite interface strings

See this BabelZilla post and see what is to be done.

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Retrieving AMO metadata on upload: tests wanted

If your extension is hosted on AMO, you have probably spent some time filling fieds to describe what it does, how it works, and various useful information for your users, but you may not wish to write everything again when … Continue reading

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Cool features and Localization

Cool features and localization Thanks to Mozilla Labs awesome hackers, we can now enjoy restartless extensions à la Jetpack, and sure this is a cool feature. One of the most recent extensions of this kind from the Prospector series, is … Continue reading

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5 years of Translation game

BabelZilla is now 5 years old On July 30th, 2005, when together with early helpful enthousiasts, we (Giuliano, Jürgen, Luana and I) started this project, we just imagined it could be a useful meeting point for extension developers and translators. … Continue reading

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TransVision Is Good For Me

TransVision Is Good For Me Well it should be good for you too I have been using this tool for more than one year now, I think you can find it fun and useful, so I just want to share … Continue reading

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AMO adds locale stats and checks

Two very useful new localization related features have been added to AMO (addons.mozilla.org) recently. Locale statistics Add-on statistics pages are now capable of listing the total number of daily users by locale. Awesome. Take a look at my stats for … Continue reading

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It’s time to exorcise contents.rdf

It’s time to exorcise contents.rdf What are contents.rdf files? Junk from a bygone era. When writing a Mozilla extension you need to tell the application where and what your extension’s files are. Since Firefox 1.5 (Gecko 1.8) it’s been a … Continue reading

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10 things I learned contributing on BabelZilla project

10 things I learned contributing on BabelZilla project > my point is : share simple observations on what makes a contributors’ community succeed or not, and have your feedback since you are all community leaders ore active members on various … Continue reading

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