- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:13:01 +0000 (UTC)
The idea of a control for countries was considered. However, it was rejected because I couldn't get agreement from UAs to implement it. They cited many of the reasons given in this thread, and some more, such as being worried about being sued (like Microsoft was when Windows 95 shipped with a country control in the datetime control panel). So. For the people who want this: if you want this in the spec, you first need to convince the browser vendors to agree to implement something like this. Until there are vendors who want to implement it, adding it to the spec is a waste of time. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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