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Bug 21290 - Notification of change to the UA's preferences
Summary: Notification of change to the UA's preferences
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Robin Berjon
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Depends on: 21289
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Reported: 2013-03-14 19:49 UTC by Marcos Caceres
Modified: 2016-04-20 19:22 UTC (History)
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Description Marcos Caceres 2013-03-14 19:49:39 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #21289 +++

Users sometimes need to switch locale settings on their device. When this happens, the value of navigator.language is changed (or should be!). It would be nice if HTML provided some means to be notified that the change had taken place. 

The application can then use this information to perform appropriate localization changes on the client side. For example, reformatting DOM elements that contain times and dates to better suit the new locale information (this could work together with the  ECMAScript i18n API).
Comment 1 Arron Eicholz 2016-04-20 19:22:13 UTC 
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: 

This bug constitutes a request for a new feature of HTML. Our current guidelines, rather than track such requests as bugs or issues, is to create a proposal for the desired behavior, or at least a sketch of what is wanted (much of which is probably contained in this bug), and start the discussion/proposal in the WICG (https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/). As your idea gains interest and momentum, it may be brought back into HTML through the Intent to Migrate process (https://wicg.github.io/admin/intent-to-migrate.html).