[chromium-dev] Re: [chromium-extensions] A plan for i18n

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Erik Kay erik...@google.com wrote: To be clear what's (intentionally) omitted from this proposal: - localized resource fetching (transparently turning /foo/bar.gif into /_locales/jp/foo/bar.gif) - auto string substitution (l18n templating) I think what you've

[chromium-dev] Re: [chromium-extensions] A plan for i18n

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Nebojša Ćirić c...@google.com wrote: One minor thing you left out was getURL providing a way to generate a localized URL (ideally without stats).  If we don't provide devs a way to construct URLs manually, then they won't have a good migration path for

[chromium-dev] Re: [chromium-extensions] A plan for i18n

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Nebojša Ćirić c...@google.com wrote: Implementation notes: In order to avoid slowing down Chrome startup, I think we need to store the manifest in the preferences already localized. So basically, somewhere during extension installation, we need to localize the

[chromium-dev] Re: [chromium-extensions] A plan for i18n

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Nebojša Ćirić c...@google.com wrote: Implementation notes: In order to avoid slowing down Chrome startup, I think we need to store the manifest in the preferences already localized. So