Default languages should be based on browser locale

[AmitMY]

Currently the app defaults to English and ASL regardless of the user's browser locale.

Instead, the app should:

1. Default the spoken language and sign language based on the user's browser locale
2. Persist the user's language selection via session storage so it is remembered across page loads

Ref: sign-language-processing/spoken-to-signed-translation#61

[binarykitchen]

Yip, thank you 👍

Persist the user's language selection via session storage so it is remembered across page loads

May I ask why use session storage when it also can lead to more security issues? I did not recommend this.

[AmitMY]

what security issues can happen from session storage?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/sessionStorage

[binarykitchen]

Ok, if it's just a language preference, should be probably fine if it's also validated on server side?
I work for a bank where security matters. The default rule is not to trust anything sent by any client.

In addition to that, there is also another issue re: usability:
Mozilla: Closing the tab/window ends the session and clears the data in sessionStorage

Which means, I have to pick my language preferences every time I visit https://sign.mt whenever, for example, I've restarted my machine.

I understand, there is no login yet, and it's a prototype. But a very interesting one. Happy to give more feedback over time :)

[AmitMY]

Ok, then localStorage instead :) server will trust the client, otherwise we might refuse / not send the right data