On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Can the ICU data be split by locale and bundled with the localized Firefox > builds? > > For example, someone who downloads Firefox's Portuguese build is probably > interested in ECMAScript internationalization, but only as it pertains to > Portuguese.
I (strongly) think we should not make the capabilities of the Web platform dependent on the UI locale of the browser. Precedent exists for fallback encoding for unlabeled HTML pages, but I think the precedent should be taken as a “never do this again” learning opportunity rather than an excuse to introduce more of that. Given the alternatives of Web apps downloading their own JS-based collation, sorting and date formatting code and the platform providing collation, sorting and date formatting functionality inconsistently depending on the UI locale, I’d much rather have each Web app download their own code than to provide an inconsistent platform. Also, the notion that a user with a given browser UI language only cares about stuff working for that language is incorrect. There are plenty of people who use Web apps/sites from outside their home locale box. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
