2016-04-03 11:29 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com:
The Translate tag has always seemed like a hack that I've never quite understood.
I am happy to direct to our documentation [1] anyone who asks, or explain if the documentation is not sufficient.
The word hack can have both positive and negative meanings and it is unclear what do you mean with it here.
The translate tag causes lots of issues on mobile (impacting usability and performance) due to not playing well with the rest of the language ecosystem.
I was under the impression that mobile does not work with the wikitext directly. Translate tags never appear in the parsed wikitext output. Can you please point me to the tasks in Phabricator where these are explained? I am especially curious about the part about "rest of the language ecosystem" because having worked on many parts of it, I don't feel the same way.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate
-Niklas