Intent to Prototype: Web app translations

[Louise Brett]

Contact emails

loub...@google.com, gle...@chromium.org, mgi...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/manifest-incubations/blob/gh-pages/translations-explainer.md

Specification

Summary

Adds "translations" to the web app manifest which enables web apps to provide alternate values for manifest fields for different languages.

Blink component

Blink

Motivation

Currently the Web App Manifest has no direct support for localization so fields can only be provided in a single language. The current recommended ways to translate the manifest have several problems which can be fixed by adding translations into the manifest.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/676

TAG review

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Debuggability

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name

Requires code in //chrome?

True

Tracking bug

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1259777

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5695980063162368

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[Thomas Steiner]

Documented this change in https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web.dev/pull/6520. To be merged once we know when this will be usable.

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