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Use cases and requirements for installable web apps
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Discuss issues with localization of metadata vs localization of web app #23

Open marcoscaceres opened 10 years ago

marcoscaceres commented 10 years ago

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".

ernesto-jimenez commented 10 years ago

Sounds good.

We should probably expand what's currently the relationship between navigator.language and the device's language in mobile.

In Desktop we are more used to browsers having different language settings to the OS, but I'm not sure that's the case in mobile. e.g: I haven't found any language settings in Chrome nor Safari for iPhone.