The proposal looks good except for one reservation I have about. A few years ago, we proposed a similar API to webkit-dev, but it's 'killed' there and we didn't bring it up in whatwg (Chromium ended up adding an extension API for that for Chrome extensions).
My reservation is : it's not a good idea to "conflate" the browser's UI language and the ordered list of preferred content languages (Accept-Language). Specifically, I think it's better to leave alone 'navigator.language' when the preferred list of languages is changed. *2.1 If the first item of the lang list is not the same value as the value of* *the 'navigator' object's `language` attribute, update the `navigator` object's `* *attribute` to be the first item lang list.* That is, I suggest that 'navigator.language' always be the UI language of a web browser. When the 'preferred lang list' changes, it should NOT affect 'navigator.language' (singular) but ONLY updates 'navigator.languages' (plural). If 'language vs languages' is likely to cause confusion/errors, we might as well choose to use 'preferredLanguages' or 'preferredContentLanguages' for the latter. Jungshik 2013/10/16 Erik Arvidsson <a...@chromium.org> > This looks very useful and the proposal looks solid. > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > > > > Ping? > > > > > > Mozilla would like to know if anyone else is interested or specially if > > > people are NOT interested. We would like to implement this and expose > it > > > on the platform. > > > > > > See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780953 > > > > I was just looking at this, actually. I filed the following bug to track > > it: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23517 > > > > Seems like a reasonable feature to me, FWIW. > > > > See also: > > > > Notification of change to navigator.language (locale change) > > https://www.w3.org/bugzilla_public/show_bug.cgi?id=21289 > > > > API to expose locale-specific settings > > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22679 > > > > API to expose actual language of a node, to aid scripts doing > > localisation and CJK editors during copy&paste and drag&drop > > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23512 > > > > -- > > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > > > > > > -- > erik >
