On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com> wrote: > Tab Atkins said: >>Reiterating my earlier point, if the *users* are giving some explicit >>instruction, it's much more effective for them to give it to the >>browser itself, so the browser can apply their wishes to *all* pages, >>not just those who went to the trouble of setting everything up >>correctly. > > Though I violently agree with the principle, I once saw data suggesting > the number of end-users who are comfortable discovering and tweaking > browser preferences to be pretty low, fwiw. (Many people have no idea > their default search engine is something they can change, to take a > popular example). I’m not suggesting giving an API is the better anwer > here; but shoving things in browser config is not as obvious a win as it > seems. Oh, I completely agree that users don't tweak browser config. Luckily, the locale from their OS is usually right for them, or at least usable. (Users definitely don't manually tweak their Accept-Language headers, or the inputs that go into them, either. That comes from the locale for nearly everyone.) ~TJReceived on Friday, 16 January 2015 22:10:47 UTC
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