[Mediawiki-i18n] why is jquery.localize undocumented and little used?

[Amir E. Aharoni]

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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2013/8/8 S Page <spage at wikimedia.org>:
> 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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