- From: Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:02 -0700
- To: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On May 14, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Samuel Santos wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Samuel Santos <samaxes@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What I propose is to add a new attribute to the input element like
>> this:
>>
>> attribute DOMString browseText;
>>
>> this allows us developers to change the input file browse button
>> text to have it in the same language as the rest of the application
>> and not with the language selected in the browser.
>>>
>>
>
> This issue seems to be a very recurring and still unsolved problem
> when dealing with Web internationalization / multi-language Web Apps.
> I would like to suggest this to be reviewed with an editor comment
> please.
>
> Additionally, it's important if we could decorate separately the
> file path text field and the browse button using CSS.
This wouldn't work well for Safari or WebKit. WebKit's <input
type=file> does not have a file path text field nor does it have a
button with the label "Browse" on it. The label is "Choose File" in
WebKit.
-- Darin
Received on Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:44:46 UTC