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Use cases and requirements for installable web apps
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Expand localization info and fix some typos #19

Closed ernesto-jimenez closed 10 years ago

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

Reviewed. LGTM.

I'll try to expand this over the weekend. Need to describe the problem at the moment that even if you get the localized name, the application won't be localized. The navigator.language is the navigator language, so the application has no way of knowing (currently) that the system language has changed. This would require a change to how the web platform interfaces with the OS to get the user's language. This has privacy issues, as it helps narrow down a user's geographic location down to a country. The HTML5 spec currently tries to protect users from this by telling the UA to always report "en-US".

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

argh... I'll file a separate bug for the above.

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

related: https://github.com/w3c-webmob/installable-webapps/issues/23