- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:14:41 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote: > >> > > >> > If changing the button text can be a security issue (e.g. induce > >> > the user to an action that he's not aware of), we can come up with > >> > some solutions. > >> > > >> > What about allowing the Author to change the control's locale? By > >> > doing so, the UA can then render the button with the same locale as > >> > the application without compromising the security. > >> > >> It seems like browsers should do this already based on the lang="" > >> attribute. I recommend asking browser vendors to implement this. > > > > @lang will definitively fix the problem if browsers are willing to > > implement it. > > Ian, can I ask you to please check this with browser vendors? I don't think the problem is worth fixing, so I'm probably not the best person to convince them. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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