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- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:47:33 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17859 --- Comment #43 from Cameron Jones <cmhjones@gmail.com> --- 1. The current description of locale was defined through this bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13408 2. The problem with making a specific locale a requirement is that there is no universal default which makes sense for all controls. 3. The best change possible would be to specify which locale should be used for each control, however this was deemed to be too onerous for HTML and assumes a particular implementation. 4. There is already navigator.language so there is no additional fingerprinting signals exposed by form localization. The place to define localization for presentation is not HTML but instead through CSS. This allows authors to write the content of the page with locale markup using the "lang" attribute and then configure the style of the page using the user or element locale through CSS declarations. This also would provide the mechanism for UAs to define their localizations as CSS declarations within the default stylesheet. I broached this on www-style last year but as an esoteric subject there was little headway at the time. I do note that i18n has interest in resolving this bug and has produced the following: https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Locale-based_forms -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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