BTW just want to point out that there is a #rtl irc channel on our mozilla network, as well as dev-rtl mailing list for those interested ( https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-rtl).
RTL community members and staff hang out in both cheers On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Margaret Leibovic <mleibo...@mozilla.com> wrote: > For those of you who are interested, there is also a meta bug about RTL > support for Firefox for Android: > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=702845&hide_resolved=0 > > A few years ago some students attempted to make progress on this, but that > work stalled out. Some of these bugs may be out of date, and any old > patches are definitely out of date, but there shouldn't be anything > blocking us from starting to fix some of these bugs. > > Margaret > > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Stefan Arentz <sare...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> I’ve been filing bugs for areas of the app where we currently do not >> correctly support Right-To-Left languages. This is all very interesting. It >> is not just about text flowing from right to left, but also how for example >> pages are swiped, how grid layouts flow and how the UI in general looks >> like. Mostly things are mirrored. >> >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=1160759&hide_resolved=0 >> >> This is not all there is to do, but it is pretty good start I think. I >> have tried to break down a bunch of things into smaller parts where >> possible. >> >> The RTL team has attaches a great review to that bug too, be sure to >> check it out. Although it seems a lot of the issues they reported have been >> resolved without us doing any work. Possibly recent iOS updates have >> improved the situation greatly. >> >> Some obervations: >> >> Many of these bugs are very low hanging fruit and easy to fix. Some, like >> the URL Bar, are more difficult. Many of these are great contributor or >> starter bugs. >> >> In many cases where we go wrong, it is just a matter of changing >> AutoLayout rules to stop using left/right and start using leading/trailing. >> The leading/trailing attributes are flipped on RTL, so if you layout a UI >> relative to those, things usually ‘just work’. >> >> Some things seem to work with fixed position (in points) of UI items. If >> that was not for a good reason then we should convert that code to use >> AutoLayout. >> >> Apple has made a huge effort to let standard UIKit components behave >> correctly. For example a UIPageControl (the ‘dots’ control) just works >> correctly. Even a UICollectionView for the tabs tray aligns correctly >> without work needed. >> >> Things go mostly wrong where we deviate and do not use standard controls. >> For example Top Sites has its own UICollectionViewLayout. (Can we kill it, >> i don’t think we need it anymore) Or the history and bookmarks browsers >> render their own navigation top bar with a back button. >> >> Fortunately most of these are easy to fix, but I think it shows how >> important it is to always prefer standard controls where possible. This >> probably also wins us better accessibility support. >> >> Testing RTL is pretty easy. In the Scheme settings you can set the >> application language to “Right To Left Pseudolanguage”. This renders the >> app in English, but with RTL layout rules applied. This is something we >> must do by default when testing every new UI change. >> >> There is a mailing list, dev-...@mozilla.org, where discussions are >> happening. >> >> I would love to move this forward enough so that we can start including >> the locales, Arabic and Persion, that have been ready for some time but >> have not shipped because the app does not work correctly. >> >> With the ‘RTL Pseudolanguage’ option, anyone can work on RTL bugs. You >> don’t need to be a native speaker. >> >> S. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mobile-firefox-dev mailing list >> mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > >
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