- From: Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@antplc.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:02:49 +0000
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Alexey Proskuryakov" <ap@webkit.org>, addison@yahoo-inc.com, public-webapi@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:47:02 +0100, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org> > wrote: > > on 29.11.2007 20:16, Anne van Kesteren at annevk@opera.com wrote: > > > >> I think it actually makes sense to require user agents to not set the > >> Accept-Language as appropriate so that content authors can do that. > > > > The author does not have access to browser or OS defaults, so I think > > that the UA should set Accept-Language, but not override one specified > > by the > > author. > > Isn't that what navigator.language is for? Do you think that content authors are going to bother setting the Accept-Language request header on every XHR request that they make? No, they are going to assume that the browser sets it automatically I think it is a decent compromise to permit authors to set the header and have that suppress the user agent's own header. -- Stewart Brodie Software Engineer ANT Software Limited
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