- From: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@chromium.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 01:01:10 -0700
- To: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have no objection to the name "baseLang" rather than "language" as the > name of the DOM attribute. > > But if there isn't more interest or you decide not to add this DOM > attribute, I encourage you to at least: > > fwiw WebKit (and Blink) implement this through CSS inheritance since you need to know the lang for all kinds of things and walking up the DOM repeatedly would be expensive. -webkit-locale is inherited by default and contains the enclosing @lang value. You can query it through getComputedStyle(node).webkitLocale. That doesn't help your custom parser though. - E
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