[whatwg] Proposal: Locale Preferences API

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Wed Nov 27 14:20:45 PST 2013


On 11/27/13 4:28 PM, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜) wrote:
> That is, I suggest that 'navigator.language' always be the UI language of a
> web browser.

That's an unacceptable privacy leak from Mozilla's point of view.  See 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55366 where we explicitly 
switched from that to basing navigator.language on the Accept header.

-Boris



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