Re: [XHR] i18n comment 8: content negotiation handling

"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.



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Stewart Brodie
Software Engineer
ANT Software Limited