The following chrome files should be moved out of the communicator package and into their own place, i.e. a dedicated layout package. xmlparser.properties HtmlForm.properties ImageDocument.properties The way these files are included in locale/en-US/communicator/layout/ is pretty ugly too. mozilla/layout would benefit from having a dedicated resource directory much like mozilla/netwerk. See bug 63607 & bug 90749 for more info - basically embedding shouldn't have to include anything from communicator.

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Note that ImageDocument.properties is now MediaDocument.properties.

Sorry, which is the mozilla/netwerk referred to?

mozilla/netwerk/resources/*

Gotcha. (notices a communicator URL in netwerk/resources/jar.mn) So, the idea is to change the references in the source and jar.mn to match?

I think that's the goal, yes...

OK, I think I can accomplish this at the same time as bug 179834... if we can support multiple locations for chrome, we can ship these with the GRE instead of making embedders do that.

OK, if these files were introduced into the GRE (XRE) package, that would cause the GRE to have language dependencies. I still think they belong in the GRE, because they are necessary for HTML/XML to render properly, but this means that we need to ship localizations of the GRE... blech

Um, is stuff like textboxes in the GRE? They have localized context menus...

The context menus are not part of Gecko... these files are. Perhaps we should make this a separate part of the GRE somehow, one that's easy to replace?

Nothing in the GRE is easy to replace ;) Really, I've been working through a whole set of problems like this one, where parts of gecko are locale-dependent. We currently use the chrome registry to accomplish the locale, which is gigantic overkill and isn't what the chrome registry was designed to do. I want to make the core HTML-rendering aspects of gecko not need the chrome registry at all. See bug 215212 for my plans to implement a gecko locale service that will handle the basic locale needs of gecko. --BDS

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279768 ***