[webkit-dev] exposing the value of Accept-Language via window.navigation.acceptLanguage ?

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Darin Fisher wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov  
> <ap at webkit.org> wrote:
>
> 22.07.2009, в 22:36, Darin Fisher написал(а):
>
>> Firefox and Chrome send very similar A-L headers.  Given FF's  
>> marketshare, I'm surprised you observed compat problems with doing  
>> the same.  Was that a recent observation?  Can you provide more  
>> details about the issues you observed?
>
> It's not recent, see <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2005-June/000217.html 
> >. There is also some discussion in <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3510 
> >, not sure if any of it is still relevant.
>
> I do not have a reference handy, but IIRC, sending quality values  
> was breaking some widely deployed intranet webmail system.
>
> FF has a lot more marketshare now than it did in 2005.  Perhaps  
> these issues are a thing of the past?  It would be interesting to  
> know if any of the sites mentioned still have problems in FF or  
> Chrome.

I think the main reason for us to minimize the Accept-Language header  
was compatibility. I think it would be reasonable to try an extended  
version now. The problem now is how to set things that way. Safari on  
Mac used to pick the Accept-Language header based on International  
preferences, but in the default setup, many languages are in the list  
and the order beyond the user's main language is fairly arbitrary.

In any case, I think the privacy concern is minimal, and I don't think  
the proposed API makes it any worse. My only doubts about the proposal  
are whether web developers will actually want to use it.

Regards,
Maciej

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