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Use cases and requirements for installable web apps
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Application name and localization #15

Closed mounirlamouri closed 10 years ago

mounirlamouri commented 10 years ago

I guess some website / webapp have different name/title depending on the locale. I believe Firefox OS allows that. It would be great to have this issue raised in the document.

ernesto-jimenez commented 10 years ago

True, all the platforms allow for localisation on the names. I'll add a section about this.

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

Can't servers handle their own localization? Seems redundant to include this... it would be like including:

<title>The foo<title>
<title lang="fr">Le foo<title>
<title lang="es">El foo<title>
ernesto-jimenez commented 10 years ago

That was my first thought. However, what happens when I change the language settings from Spanish to English? Does my phone still show the "Reminders" app as "Recordatorios" because I installed it with my phone in Spanish? Does the system need to trigger a re-download of all the manifests to see if the apps have different names in the new language?

I'll expand the section with this info.

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

yeah, that's basically part of the problem. It would be good to find out how often people change lang phones... also, one could re-request the manifest, etc.

I have a related spec: "Proposal: navigator.languages API"