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A view of the FT homepage designed for non-interactive video walls and billboards
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Feature Request: Allow locale to be configured by the end-user #60

Closed JakeChampion closed 8 years ago

JakeChampion commented 8 years ago

Problem: End-user can not override what locale the website to be displayed as.

Solution: Expose a query parameter which lets the end-user explicitly set the locale to be configured as.

seanmtracey commented 8 years ago

+1

triblondon commented 8 years ago

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triblondon commented 8 years ago

(I wouldn't necessarily object to this feature but it feels like solving a problem for which a solution already exists, and which is native to the platform)

seanmtracey commented 8 years ago

Right now, we're tied to displaying BigFT exclusively in Chrome as the localisation API we're using to detect the timezone is only supported there. https://github.com/ftlabs/big-ft/blob/master/client/src/main.js#L422. By creating a user override, we open up the possibility of other modern/capable browsers being able to display Big FT (like Firefox, or Edge)