- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:20:40 +0200
- To: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > The correlation should be at least as high, as far as I can tell. Logically, yes, for most parts of the world. > Or maybe a 50%/50% experiment > with that as the first 50% and the default coming from the TLD instead of > the UI locale in the second 50%, with the corresponding instrumentation, > to see how the results compare. Mozilla doesn't have a proper A/B testing infrastructure yet. I expect the A to be Firefox 29 on the release channel and B to be Firefox 30 on the release channel. So unless this gets backed out, I expect to have data around the time of Firefox 31 going to release. > Have you tried deploying this? It is on Firefox trunk now. However, not all country TLDs are participating. I figured it is better to leave unsure cases the way they were. It doesn't make sense to put a lot of effort into researching those before seeing if the general approach works for the case that it was designed for, specifically Traditional Chinese. The success metric I expect to be looking at is if the usage of the character encoding menu in the Traditional Chinese localization of Firefox falls to the same level as in other Firefox localizations in general. If this change turns out to be successful for Traditional Chinese, then I think it will be worthwhile to research the unobvious cases. The TDLs listed in https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/encoding/nonparticipatingdomains.properties do not participate at present (i.e. get a browser UI localization-based guess like before). The TLDs listed in https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/encoding/domainsfallbacks.properties get the fallbacks listed in that file. All other TLDs map to windows-1252. > What have you learnt so far? It hasn't been an obvious and immediate disaster. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/
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