[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 209770] New: Intl.RelativeTimeFormat missing in WebKit

[bugzilla-daemon at webkit.org]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209770

            Bug ID: 209770
           Summary: Intl.RelativeTimeFormat missing in WebKit
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: JavaScriptCore
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: sffc at chromium.org

Intl.RelativeTimeFormat has reached Stage 4 in TC39 as of December 2019, and the other major browser engines (V8 and SpiderMonkey) have been shipping it for some time.

As usage of Intl.RelativeTimeFormat increases throughout the ecosystem, WebKit users will be left behind with legacy polyfills, leading to poorer performance relative to other browsers.  At Google, we are currently weighing our options for calling Intl.RelativeTimeFormat in supported environments in order to give users better performance and smaller download sizes.

ICU4C exposes C and C++ APIs that can be used to implement Intl.RelativeTimeFormat.  Implementing Intl.RelativeTimeFormat is largely a matter of adding the glue between JavaScript and ICU4C, as WebKit already does for other Intl types.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-unassigned/attachments/20200330/32f61132/attachment-0001.htm>