[Bug 17859] Mechanism to enable localisation of form controls and other locale-specific data

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17859

--- Comment #42 from Anne <annevk@annevk.nl> ---
1. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#input-impl-notes already
allows using the page's locale and even encourages it. So it seems this was
already changed at some point to be mostly encouraged. We could change this to
make it close to a requirement (we can probably not completely require it).

2. For <input inputmode=tel/email/url> the user's locale is recommend for the
keyboard, but that makes total sense to me. I don't think we want to change
that.

3. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#input-author-notes should
probably be modified to say page's locale instead or even refer to the language
of the control.

4. We should modify
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#submit-button-state-(type=submit)
and
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#reset-button-state-(type=reset).
That would even remove a fingerprinting issue. If we created a standardized
list of strings per language we could completely eliminate all fingerprinting
there.

If we do 4,
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#using-the-input-element-to-define-a-command
also needs to be updated.

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Received on Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:34:20 UTC