Title: Intent to Implement: Intl.DisplayNames API Proposal
Contact emails ft...@chromium.com Explainer https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-displaynames https://tc39.github.io/proposal-intl-displaynames/ Design doc/Spec Engineering Plan https://goo.gl/im9wy4 Summary Provides a new API to get localized names of language, region, script, currency codes of international standard as well as commonly used names of date fields and symbols. Motivation Main motivation for Intl.DisplayNames project was to enable developers to get translation of language, region or script display names on the client. Translation of languages, regions or script display names requires large amount of data to transmit on the network, which is already available in most browsers. These display name translations also carry steep data size penalty for developers. This API will allow web developers to shrink the size of their HTML and/ or ECMAScript code without the need to include the human readable form of display names and therefore reduce the download size to decrease latency. Also, this API will reduce the localization cost for the web developers. Our goal is to expose this data through Intl API for use in e.g. language, region and script pickers, etc. Benefit - Reduce download size of apps and therefore improve latency. - Easy for users to build internationalized language, region or script selection UI components (drop down menu or other kinds). - Reduce translation cost for developers. - Consistent translation of language, region and script display name on the web. Risks Interoperability and Compatibility This is a new API. It is currently under TC39 Stage 1 and we plan to propose to advance it to Stage 2 in June 2019. Ergonomics Activation Web developers could use the API immediately upon our shipment. Debuggability Nothing special. Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes. Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> ? Tests under tc39/test262 will includes many tests to test this API. Link to entry on the feature dashboard <https://www.chromestatus.com/> https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4965112605573120 Requesting approval to ship? “No”. The feature is behind a runtime flag harmony_intl_display_names and I will later send an Intent to Ship <https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1EyRTYnF2bmgqwYQQTDs2R2BT3ZSx29iPCFKTQiS_37o/edit> email when I am ready to enable by default. -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-users/CAOcELL-oXxvg5OgbukD54YfT9h0QcURtbTXnM7XSrzxDz3tPYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
