On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜) wrote:

Hi,

I proposed exposing the values of the Accept-Langauge  list via
window.navigation.acceptLanguages at

     https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27555

This email is to get opinions (for and against) on that in case the
bug is not noticed by many. As pointed out by ap in the bug, perhaps,
we have to bring this up in the WHATWG as well. Before I do that, it
may not be a bad idea to know what others her think about it.

This sounds like a reasonable extension. I prefer the variant that gives a tokenized form of Accept-Language. I think a good next step is to propose it on the WHATWG list or public-html, explaining the use cases.

Besides possible translation extensions, is this something Google Translate would possible use? It seems that a number Google web properties pick their UI language based on the likely physical location of your IP address(*), and many websites do likewise, so I'm wondering if this extension is something that would actually get used on the web.

Regards,
Maciej

* - Kind of off topic, but I found this incredibly frustrating recently when traveling in countries where I did not know the native language.
_______________________________________________
webkit-dev mailing list
webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org
http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev

Reply via email to