While adding messages for a restyled login and create account forms I find
they're getting longer and longer. E.g. the original field was named
"yourpassword", and I'm distinguishing the two forms' fields, so
userlogin-yourpassword. But when it comes to the placeholder text that
appears in the input field,
'userlogin-yourpassword-placeholder'
feels just too long (34 characters). I think as we start using HTML5
features and more fields get placeholders, it makes sense to use an
abbreviation for that 11 character, so
'userlogin-yourpassword-ph'
I explain this MessagesQqq.php, but how about mentioning abbreviations in <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#System_messages> ?
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=S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments team