On Sep 23, 2009, at 16:07 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
Robin Berjon wrote:
On Sep 21, 2009, at 20:08 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
5.1
Localization
Shall it be possible for the widget to programmatically discover
the
localization path it was loaded from (section 9 of P&C)?
Yes, you can check its URI. If the implementation supports the
window
object, then it possible.
How? window.location will return widget:///foo.html irrespective of
whether the runtime loaded /foo.html or /locales/fr/foo.html.
Ah, ok. Yes, forgot about that. Well, the best we can do is give the
lang list that the UA is using? Ideas? is this really important? I
can see it being useful to know where stuff is being loaded from
instead of having to guess where a resource was loaded from.
I wouldn't call it important enough that it would have to happen in
v1. Basic functionality would be to expose the UA's known preferred
locales, but I don't think that's for us to define (it seems like a
perfect candidate for the navigator object). If you want to make it
useful in our model you need to be able to find the locale of a given
resource, which in turn requires a uriToLocale() method.
I think that it's a lot of work for something that won't be used
(though of course that could be said of pretty much the entire locale
system :~).
Maybe in v2 we can improve this (e.g. also with a setLocale() call so
widgets can expose a UI to change language) but for the time being I'd
recommend not doing it — the cost-benefit ratio isn't worth it and we
shouldn't do something just for completeness' sake, we're not in the
elegance business.
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