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Thoughts -> Paper... or wiki, whatever.
Here's a collection of ideas regarding dictionaries that I pondered while I was away on holiday. Apparently "nobox and others" is assigned to work on a stop-gap solution to dictionary distribution for the Firefox 2 launch, my help isn't wanted, and we'll work on something better in Remora. I don't know if the page is going to be on mozilla.com or AMO, or what the plan is at all (so much for openness.) My previous recollections were for the first-run pages to include a link to install the dictionary for that locale, and then also include a link to a page on addons.mozilla.org similar to the current search-plugins page (actually at that stage remora was going to make the Fx2 release, so it was going to be a remora page.) So anyway, here's my ideas, whether they be used for the stop-gap pages, or for remora.
Basic page layout:
We reckon you're probably looking for the English (British) dictionary.
...or maybe you'd prefer one of these:
* [https://releases.mozilla.org/etc/etc/ English (USA) - 190KB]
Or maybe we just have no idea at all, so here's all the dictionaries we have available.for all languages:
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 90%;"><tr><th colspan="2">Language</th><th>Version</th><th>Size</th><th>Last Updated</th></tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bulgarianetc.</td><td lang="bg">Български<�td/td><td>0.2</td><td>450KB</td><td>June 29, 2005</td>
</tr>
</table>
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The first guessed add-on dictionary is the locale of the user's application installationif they are accessing the page from their app or if they are accessing it from a link, the first guessed dictionary is the one for the language they are browsing in.
The second-guessed locales are:
* The locales that the user has in their accept-language file, which I understand will be passed to us from the client's URL.
* Any locales which match the first part of the application's locale. eg. if the locale is en-GB, any en-* dictionaries which have en in the locale will be shown.
Some database changes:
