Proposal: Unpacked _locales
Simply an idea for further discussion
Background
Almost all free extensions maintain their _locales through user contributions. In most cases, it is not practical to maintain and pack 100s of locales with the extension.
The idea is to provide an alternative method of providing locales where users can upload their preferred individual locale, to be used by the extension.
Benefits
- Smaller extensions (for developers, browsers, & web stores)
- Easier maintenance
- Users can create & use their own locales
Requirements
Subject to a consensus between bowsers to provide the feature ...
- Additional extension storage for the user locales e.g.
_userLocales
- Browsers to internally combine
_locales & _userLocales
- A method to upload
messages.json to the above storage
- It can be an API user-interface via the extension
- It can be a browser user-interface under the extension management
Proposal: Unpacked _locales
Simply an idea for further discussion
Background
Almost all free extensions maintain their
_localesthrough user contributions. In most cases, it is not practical to maintain and pack 100s of locales with the extension.The idea is to provide an alternative method of providing locales where users can upload their preferred individual locale, to be used by the extension.
Benefits
Requirements
Subject to a consensus between bowsers to provide the feature ...
_userLocales_locales&_userLocalesmessages.jsonto the above storage