There are several use cases:
- Localization of form controls in languages where browser support
is lacking, such as some minor languages.
- Localization of HTML elements, especially date formatting of span
and div elements in the page's default language, see especially [1].
When it comes to retrieving the language of an element, a JavaScript
implementation can do everything except retrieve the value of the
Content-Language header of the document, so even providing a DOM attribute
like "contentLanguage" will resolve this issue.
[1]:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#input-impl-notes
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Hickson
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:39 AM
To: Peter Occil
Cc: WHATWG
Subject: Re: [whatwg] HTML: A DOM attribute that returns the language of a
node
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Peter Occil wrote:
Well, my true hope is that such a DOM attribute like "language" will be
specified in the HTML or DOM spec. Especially since it's not currently
possible to get the language of a node through JavaScript methods alone.
What's the use case for having this in HTML?
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