1602575 - Convert DateTimeBox UA Widget to use Fluent instead of DTDs

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, task)

Description

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Brian and I talked about UA widgets and fluent. The basic idea is to use

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/23d4bffcad365e68d2d45776017056b76ca9a968/toolkit/actors/UAWidgetsChild.jsm#35

to pass a dictionary to UA widget setup that includes all the strings from a new uawidgets.ftl file.

The implementation of the UA widget can then inline the strings it needs into the markup template strings it uses to initialize its own markup.

This avoids attaching Fluent to actual live web DOM (even via an in-principle-not-web-accessible shadow DOM) because there be dragons.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

In lieu of comment #0, current thinking is to make importNodeAndAppendChildAt and friends do the heavy lifting instead, and directly modify the DOM fragment.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #1)

In lieu of comment #0, current thinking is to make importNodeAndAppendChildAt and friends do the heavy lifting instead, and directly modify the DOM fragment.

Zibi, we might need sync l10n for this, I think? Insofar as the l10n stuff impacts layout, that is. Do we have APIs for that in place? I don't see anything on DOMLocalization.

Comment 3

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

If you have a document that you want to be localized synchronously, all you have to do is set data-l10n-sync on the root element.
If you want imperative, there's a second argument to Localization constructor.

But I'm not sure why you need it to be sync?

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I'm not actually working on this at the moment.