extid       {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
extver      1.2
extname     Adblock Plus
extdesc     Ads were yesterday!
creator     Wladimir Palant
homepage    http://adblockplus.org/
contributor Rob Brown
contributor Nickolay Ponomarev
contributor Fabrice Desré

# Note [em:name]Adblock Plus[/em:name] is not repeated in locales below: should be inherited

[ar] extdesc الإعلانات أصبحت من الأمس!
[bg] extdesc Рекламите бяха вчера!
[ca] extdesc Els anuncis eren ahir
[cs] extdesc A reklamy jsou minulostí!
[da] extdesc Reklamer er fortid!
[de] extdesc Werbung war gestern!
[el] extdesc Αφήστε τις διαφημίσεις στο χθες!
[en-GB] extdesc Ads were yesterday!
[en-US] extdesc Ads were yesterday!
[es-AR] extdesc ¡La publicidad es cosa del pasado!
[es-ES] extdesc La publicidad es cosa del ayer
[fi] extdesc Mainokset ovat menneisyyttä!
[fr] extdesc Les publicités, c’est du passé !
[fy-NL] extdesc Fan no ôf gjin reklames mear!
[gl] extdesc Os anuncios son cousa do pasado!
[he] extdesc הפרסומות שייכות לעבר!
[hr] extdesc Oglasi su prošlost!
[hu] extdesc A reklám a múlté!
[hy-AM] extdesc Գովազդները երեկ էին!
[id] extdesc Iklan telah berlalu!
[is] extdesc Auglýsingar eru hluti af fortíðinni!
[it] extdesc Permette di dire ‘no’ alla pubblicità presente nelle pagine web!
[ja] extdesc 広告は過去の遺物です！
[kk-KZ] extdesc Жарнамаға жол жоқ!
[ko] extdesc 광고, 이제 안녕!
[mn] extdesc Сурталчилгаа бол өчигдөр байлаа!
[ms-MY] extdesc Iklan semalam!
[nl] extdesc Reclames behoren tot het verleden!
[pl] extdesc Powiedz NIE! reklamom
[pt-BR] extdesc Propaganda indesejada é coisa do passado!
[pt-PT] extdesc Publicidade… já era!
[ro] extdesc Elimină publicitatea din paginile web.
[ru] extdesc Скажи «нет» рекламе!
[sk] extdesc Reklamy sú minulosťou!
[sl] extdesc Oglasi so preteklost!
[sr] extdesc Рекламе су прошлост!
[sv-SE] extdesc Säg farväl till all reklam! Med Adblock Plus kan du välja att filtrera bort all reklam – reklam som tar både tid och kapacitet att ladda ner…
[th] extdesc ลาก่อนพวกโฆษณา!
[tr] extdesc Reklamlar geçmişte kaldı!
[uk] extdesc Скажи «НІ» рекламі! # Note: lowercase «ні» would resemble English «hi» less
[vi] extdesc Quảng cáo đã là dĩ vãng!
[zh-CN] extdesc 广告已成往事！
[zh-TW] extdesc 廣告已成過去式！

translator Ahmet Serkan Tıratacı
translator Dagobert_78
translator Hrvoje Majer
translator Jakub Tománek
translator Joni Heinonen
translator Jose Sun
translator Ján Kendi (Jacen)
translator KNTRO
translator Ken
translator Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson
translator Leonid
translator Leszek(teo)Życzkowski
translator Luana Di Muzio
translator Manuel Meixide
translator Mark Tyndall
translator Martin Srebotnjak
translator Mikes Kaszmán István
translator Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng
translator Premier
translator Raul Pimentel
translator Schuzak
translator SiiiE
translator Urko
translator Wim Benes
translator Wladimir Palant
translator blackdire
translator catcat
translator el_libre http://www.catmidia.cat
translator jojaba
translator kapetance
translator markh
translator maybee
translator pirlouy
translator pitdicker
translator rookie
translator sushizang
translator Бауржан Муфтахидинов
translator Владимир Палант
translator ДакСРБИЈА
translator Ивайло Йовчев (s0urce)
translator Тимофій Бабич
translator Էդուարդ Բաբայան (edo248)
translator مؤيد مارديني

# Front End Integration Hooks (used by Extension Manager)
icon    chrome://adblockplus/skin/adblockplus.png
about   chrome://adblockplus/content/ui/about.xul
options chrome://adblockplus/content/ui/settings.xul

# Target Application this extension can install into,
# with minimum and maximum supported versions.

# FireFox
target {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 3.0.12 – 3.7a5pre
# Note: dash in «3.0.12 – 3.7a5pre» should probably be space-separated,
#       not to be confused with «3.0.12-» → «3.0.12-3» → «3.0.12-3.7» → …
# This is an amendment to my previous «Appcoast» mock-up manifest logic.

# SeaMonkey
target {92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a} 2.0 – 2.1a1pre

# Thunderbird
target {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6} 3.0 – 3.2a1pre

# Songbird
target songbird@songbirdnest.com 1.4.0 – 1.8.0a

# Midbrowser
target {aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115} 0.2 – 0.3

# eMusic Remote
# Currently not supported – based on Gecko 1.8.1
# target dlm@emusic.com 1.0 – 1.0.0.*

# Conkeror
target {a79fe89b-6662-4ff4-8e88-09950ad4dfde} 0.1 – 100.0
# Conkeror developers will take care of UI integration themselves

# Prism
target prism@developer.mozilla.org 1.0b1 – 1.0.*

# Fennec
target {a23983c0-fd0e-11dc-95ff-0800200c9a66} 1.0 – 1.1.*

For example, you start with the following horrible bloat:

«?xml version=”1.0″?»
«RDF xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
  xmlns:em=”http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#”»
  «Description about=”urn:mozilla:install-manifest”»
    «em:id»helloworld@xulschool.com«/em:id»
    «em:name»XUL School Hello World«/em:name»
    «em:description»Welcome to XUL School!«/em:description»
    «em:version»0.1«/em:version»
    «em:creator»Appcoast«/em:creator»
    «em:homepageURL»https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_School«/em:homepageURL»
    «em:type»2«/em:type»
    «em:targetApplication»
      «Description»
        «em:id»{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}«/em:id»
        «em:minVersion»3.0«/em:minVersion»
        «em:maxVersion»3.6.*«/em:maxVersion»
      «/Description»
    «/em:targetApplication»
  «/Description»
«/RDF»

and you may get the following bright future:

# This is a comment.
extid    helloworld@xulschool.com # This also is a comment.
extname  XUL School Hello World
extdesc  Welcome to XUL School!
extver   0.1 # White spaces of all kinds (even nbsp) would be stripped before and after the keyword
creator  Appcoast
homepage https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_School
target   {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 3.0-3.6.*, 3.7a5pre # Firefox
# Note: here Firefox 3.7a4 users will not get automatic updates to this experimental version,
# presumably targetet for stable and nightlies only (not for alpha versions).

No XML / XHTML / HTML will ever be easier.

Not bad. Though I would recommend putting “non-extensible” data values in attributes. It’s easier to read, makes for smaller files, and that’s what attributes are for. More like this:

[target-applications]
 [!-- Firefox --]
 [application id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}"]
  [versions min="3.6" max="4.0.*"/]
 [/application]
[/target-applications]

And I think Jorge is really proposing an xhtml format, not html, so no need to worry about parsing and validating issues.

[target-applications]
[target-application]
[id]{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}[/id]
[min-version]3.6[/min-version]
[max-version]4.0.*[/max-version]
[/target-application]
[target-application]
[id]{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}[/id]
[min-version]2.1[/min-version]
[max-version]2.1.*[/max-version]
[/target-application]
[/target-applications]

In my opinion the second format is the best :
* It’s more compact and simple to read in a text view.
* You have no more element dtd to know : the learning curve is the same.
* You can use css for preview in same manner as the html format.
* It’s an xml formal format, it’s easy to validate (dtd, relax ng…), it can be important for ide tools.
* It’s more simple for ide tools to build and parse xml files than html files.

(sorry for my awfull english)

chrome/packagingspec/locale/en-US/
en-US

is not as simple as

The benefit of being “familiar” I can understand. But it’s only the HTML tag names that are familiar. Authors still have to learn the specific HTML layout: put p tags inside li tags and those p tags need to have class attributes with specific values, etc. I would happily trade familiar tag names for custom XML tags that describe the content concisely and semantically (the p tags in the XHTML do not contain paragraphs).

The final benefit of providing visualization options is nice. I like it. But this could easily be achieved with a custom XML format and a CSS file as well, right?

Whatever you decide, congratulations, and keep up the good work!