This is great news. A very welcome change indeed. There was great potential for duplicated code the old way. Thank goodness for standardization. andre Konstantin Käfer wrote:
Hi all.
Today, a patch went in that brings translation of JavaScript files and theming to Drupal. There are new JavaScript functions called Drupal.t(), Drupal.formatPlural() and Drupal.theme(). The usage of these functions is pretty much like their server side equivalent. Thus, you are now required to wrap your strings in JavaScript files in Drupal.t() calls, just like you wrap t() around them in PHP code.
Drupal.theme() is a client-side themeing function for JavaScript. It is pretty simple (just several bytes), yet rather powerful. If you have to add HTML code to the page using JavaScript, you should create a theme function in the Drupal.theme.prototype namespace. Themes can override these default theme functions by adding a function to the Drupal.theme namespace. These theme functions can for example be placed in the script.js file in the modules root directory. This file is now automatically added to the page (if present), just like style.css.
JavaScript theme functions can return about anything, a plain HTML string, an array of jQuery objects, a regular expression etc. It is advised to return an object (= array with indexes) of jQuery objects, so that the actual module code can easily determine which objects to modify.
Thanks to Gábor who continuosly reviewed this patch and brought it to a rtbc state.
Konstantin Käfer – http://kkaefer.com/