Re: Policing dead/zombie code in m-c

2014-05-27 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
Sorry, I only now discovered this thread. Below are replies to many of the issues raised with regards to the work I did adding ICU and the ECMAScript Internationalization API early last year. A lot of background information is in this document (no longer fully up to date): http://lindenbergsoft

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Apr 22, 2013, at 17:39 , Jeff Walden wrote: > On 04/22/2013 04:34 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> 3) Related to that, some properties are documented as part of the wrong >> object. For example, the String.prototype documentation shows a length >> property. String.p

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
It seems there are several distinct problems: 1) The page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String right now doesn't show the methods that String instances inherit from String.prototype. This is most likely a symptom of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-20 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
3/12/12 19:32, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> As part of implementing the ECMAScript Internationalization API [1, >> 2] in SpiderMonkey, and as an aid in internationalizing other >> functionality in Mozilla products [3], I need to integrate the ICU >> library (International Compon

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-07 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 7, 2012, at 6:18 , Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > On 12/6/2012 9:21 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> The benefit is that the ECMAScript Internationalization API lets developers >> create a more consistent localized experience for their users, with the >> correct d

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-06 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 6, 2012, at 18:36 , Robert O'Callahan wrote: > How hard would it be to incrementally download data for the locales we need? > > It seems that most users won't ever need the collation tables for Chinese, > for example. If we could figure out a way to make them available > just-in-time, that

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-06 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 6, 2012, at 16:33 , Axel Hecht wrote: > On 07.12.12 01:08, Asa Dotzler wrote: >> On 12/3/2012 2:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >>> Well, the first question is what size increase would be acceptable >>> given the benefits that ICU provides. >> >>

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-06 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 6, 2012, at 16:08 , Asa Dotzler wrote: > On 12/3/2012 2:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> Well, the first question is what size increase would be acceptable >> given the benefits that ICU provides. > > I don't understand what benefits this actually provides

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-03 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 3, 2012, at 14:10 , Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 3/12/12 20:11, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:48:06PM -0500, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: >>> On 12/3/2012 2:32 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >>>> As part of implementing the ECMAScript Inte

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-03 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 3, 2012, at 16:15 , Justin Lebar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg > wrote: >> >> Well, the first question is what size increase would be acceptable given the >> benefits that ICU provides. > >> I have currently trimmed it t

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-03 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Dec 3, 2012, at 11:48 , Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > On 12/3/2012 2:32 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> As part of implementing the ECMAScript Internationalization API [1, 2] in >> SpiderMonkey, and as an aid in internationalizing other functionality in >> Mozilla pr

Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-03 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
As part of implementing the ECMAScript Internationalization API [1, 2] in SpiderMonkey, and as an aid in internationalizing other functionality in Mozilla products [3], I need to integrate the ICU library (International Components for Unicode [4]) into the source tree and the build. For integra