"Krinkle" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r113644.
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113644#c32088
Commit summary for MediaWiki.r113644:
add locale global for handling languages and message function
for the benefit of the phonegap app
Krinkle's comment:
<pre>
var title = "{$this->data['htmlTitle']}";
var scriptPath =
"{$this->data['wgScriptPath']}";
- var showText = "{$buttonShowText}";
- var hideText = "{$buttonHideText}";
+ var locale = {
+ "expand-section": "{$buttonShowText}",
+ "collapse-section": "{$buttonHideText}"
+ };
</script>
</pre>
These generic (global!) variables are becoming an issue. More then just a
maintainability problem but a practical one as well. The browser has many
default variables in the global 'window' object by default. One of the things
many browsers put as alias into the window object are unique DOM element IDs.
So if any wiki or skin content would have <code><nowiki><span id="locale"> ..
</span></nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki><span id="title"> ..
</span></nowiki></code>, then this code is broken (some browsers allow
overriding of those properties, some don't).
Code like this is asking to get broken.
My advice would be to either drop all front-end development temporarily and
port to ResourceLoader asap, or spend more time on this.
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