I imagine that mw.msg provides more features, such as plural and
gender, and that makes it closer to the server-side i18n, but Niklas
may know better.
In any case, if it's deprecated, it should be documented.
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http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2013/8/8 S Page <spage(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Shamelessly looking at dialog code to lift, I came
across WikiLove's dialog
box:
$dialog = $( '\
<div id="mw-wikilove-dialog">\
<h2><html:msg key="wikilove-get-started-header"/></h2>
...
Wait, html:msg ? It calls $dialog.localize() and the whole chunk of DOM
gets localized at once.
This has been in core since I believe 1.17, and the AFT, MoodBar, and
WikiLove extensions use it. I'm not sure why it's not mentioned in
Localisation or Manual:Messages API . I just added it to Resource Loader
modules page.
Why isn't newer code using it, did it fall out of favor? E.g. Echo uses
jQuery chaining:
$( '<a>' ).attr(...).text( mw.msg( 'echo-overlay-link' ) ). ...
jquery.localize() doesn't give you the control of
mw.msg().escape/parse/plain/text() , but for big basic chunks of HTML it
seems ideal.
Thanks for any insight,
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=S Page software engineer on E3
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