Ember Best Language
A FastBoot-enabled addon to detect the best language for your user.
Overview
Ember-best-language is an innovative addon designed to help developers determine the most appropriate language to use based on user preferences. It cleverly leverages the Accept-Language header on the FastBoot side and utilizes the navigator.languages on the client side to create a scoring system for languages. This tool aims to enhance user experience by accurately matching supported languages with users’ preferences, ensuring that applications are more accessible and user-friendly.
Although this project is now deprecated and no longer actively maintained by Mirego, it still serves as a valuable resource for understanding language preferences in web applications. Both the scoring approach and the overall structure of this addon provide a solid foundation for language detection and selection within the Ember framework.
Features
- Language Scoring System: Utilizes the Accept-Language header and navigator.languages to score and determine the best language to display.
- Support for Language Codes: Splits language codes from country codes, ensuring effective matches even when variations like fr-CA are used.
- Flexible Language Selection: Offers two methods to retrieve the best supported language or the first supported language when necessary.
- Community Contribution Friendly: Encourages contributions and provides guidelines for running tests and building the addon.
- Open-Source License: Distributed under the New BSD license, promoting ease of use and modification for developers.
- Legacy Inspiration: Built upon the foundational work of Rémi Prévost in an earlier project, plug_best, showcasing growth and collaboration within the community.
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