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. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2013/8/8 S Page <[email protected]>: > 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, > -- > =S Page software engineer on E3 > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
