17479 2012-06-13 10:39:29 +0000 define navigator.language 2013-02-28 23:05:25 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified PC All RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2008Dec/0361.html P2 normal --- 1 annevk eoconnor bzbarsky eoconnor mike mounir plh public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 69018 0 annevk 2012-06-13 10:39:29 +0000 All browsers support it. We should document that somewhere and somewhere might as well be where the Navigator object is defined. Maybe "en" should be used as value when the user wants to reduce fingerprinting. Though given all the other exposed fingerprinting data this might not be worth mentioning. 69019 1 zcorpan 2012-06-13 10:59:34 +0000 $ grep -aPhc "navigator\.language" web200904 3354 $ grep -aPhc "navigator\.language" stevef-all 53 69020 2 zcorpan 2012-06-13 11:15:20 +0000 I quickly looked through the stevef-all (which is from http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/04/html5-accessibility-chops-data-for-the-masses/ ) matches. Most or all of them also use navigator.userLanguage or navigator.browserLanguage or navigator.systemLanguage if navigator.language is not defined. The common usage of this API seems to be for tracking, although there are probably some that use it for localization purposes as well. 70227 3 contributor 2012-07-18 07:10:52 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17878 as part of operation convergence. 81666 4 robin 2013-01-21 15:58:06 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 81784 5 robin 2013-01-21 16:00:52 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 83845 6 eoconnor 2013-02-28 23:05:25 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: No spec change. Rationale: This has already been added to the spec, as you can see here: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/webappapis.html#language-preferences