- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:20:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Samuel Santos wrote: > > This is a problem for the input element with type="file". If the > language selected in his profile is, e.g. portuguese, and the language > in the browser is english (the default), he will see all the application > in portuguese and the input file browse button text value will be in > english. Why is this a problem given that all the rest of the UA strings -- menus, for example -- will also be in the default language? Isn't it up to the user to pick the right language in the UA? > 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. We really don't want to allow authors to fiddle with this control, because it is highly security-sensitive (similarly browsers don't allow styling of this control). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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