- From: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:04:01 -0400
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
There are several use cases: - Localization of form controls in languages where browser support is lacking, such as some minor languages. - Localization of HTML elements, especially date formatting of span and div elements in the page's default language, see especially [1]. When it comes to retrieving the language of an element, a JavaScript implementation can do everything except retrieve the value of the Content-Language header of the document, so even providing a DOM attribute like "contentLanguage" will resolve this issue. [1]: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#input-impl-notes -----Original Message----- From: Ian Hickson Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:39 AM To: Peter Occil Cc: WHATWG Subject: Re: [whatwg] HTML: A DOM attribute that returns the language of a node On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Peter Occil wrote: > > Well, my true hope is that such a DOM attribute like "language" will be > specified in the HTML or DOM spec. Especially since it's not currently > possible to get the language of a node through JavaScript methods alone. What's the use case for having this in HTML? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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