Gaia/System/Localization

Status

• Stage: Development
• Release target: B2G Milestone 3 [Alpha], Q2 2012

Team

• UX: Casey Yee (@cyee)
• Dev: Fabien Cazenave (IRC: kaze)
• Eng: Vivien Nicolas (IRC: vingtetun)
• Eng: Zbigniew Braniecki (Github)
• Eng: Tim Dream (keyboard)

Reading

• dev-b2g: Gaia & Localization
• dev-webapi: document.mozL10n

UX Requirements

Last updated: July 3, 2012 (Larissa Co)

Apps and System Components which are affected by localization

(This may not be a complete list, but is as much as I can come up with.)

Date / Time

• Any app that allows filtering by date or time string
• Any app that presents definite date / time labels
  • Calendar
  • Email / Messaging
  • Call Log
  • Notifications tray
• Any building block that presents or allows date/time entry
  • time pickers (12 or 24 hour formats)
  • date pickers
• Date / Time -specific apps & system components
  • Clock
  • Home / Lock Screen (If date and time are displayed)
  • System Bar (If date and time are displayed)

Language Orientation (This section needs review)

• Button placement on Alerts, Dialogs, Entry Sheets
  • the primary button position switches sides
• Screen navigation in a hierarchy or non-looping carousel
  • screens move left to right for LTR languages
  • screens move right to left for RTL languages
• Single-line controls with descriptive text (e.g. a text label + on/off switch)
  • The text always comes before the control, based on the reading direction

Currency

• Number/Symbols Keyboard

Other considerations

• Date, Time & Currency formats
  • Varies by Region.

• Language
  • LTR and RTL

• Localized Imagery for Regions
  • Needs to be defined in greater detail

Design Specs

For the latest UX specifications, please visit https://mozilla.box.com/system