On 07.12.12 01:08, Asa Dotzler wrote:
On 12/3/2012 2:39 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote:
Well, the first question is what size increase would be acceptable
given the benefits that ICU provides.
I don't understand what benefits this actually provides. How are users'
online lives improved by this change, either today or in the future?
Adding to the download size costs us in user acquisition so we cannot be
OK with taking on megabytes of additional download size for features of
questionable value.
I think there are folks outside of mozilla that have been evaluating the
app development, and then said "to make metro a compelling ecosystem for
js apps, we need at least X apis for internationalized Y". That's what's
shaping the js i18n api. Nobody ever said that literally, but it's been
inbetween every two lines.
I don't think it serves us good to debate the necessity of the API.
I think that other competitors implement this for the languages they
have on the device, not so much for the languages on the web.
I think this is a challenge for us, and our approach to languages on the
web in general. But I do think it's essential that we take on that
challenge and win.
Axel
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