NavigatorLanguage: navigator.languages and languagechange event

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 37)
Intent stage: None

Summary

navigator.languages will expose the Accept Languages and languageevent (fired on the Window object) will notify of a change in this value. The goal is to allow web applications to handle i18n on the client side, thus allowing offline applications to react to user language changes.

Standards & signals

Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/timers.html#navigatorlanguage
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=365123

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorLanguage.languages

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