Localizing element attributes about jquery-localize

[coderifous]

Yohan - It's a good idea, but I'm not sure what I'd want the implementation to be. I'll have to give it some thought. In the mean time, some real world use cases and a pull-request with changes that are tested and backward compatible would go a long way. Do you know coffeescript? :)

[yohanb]

Don't know coffeescript but I can sure learn! I can't do a pull request on github... do I need special permissions?
Btw, with the oncoming official localization plugin from Microsoft, do you think your efforts are still worth it?

[coderifous]

I haven't really looked at the microsoft plugin much, but a quick glance at https://github.com/jquery/globalize#generating says that some things require Windows and dot-Net. Thanks, but no thanks.

Also, for all that README, I couldn't find any obvious instructions as to how I might use it on a site. For instance, jquery-localize will automatically detect the language, download the language pack (json file), and apply the translations to the page. It looks like the globalize plugin might be more thoughtful on the side of supporting date and currency formats, but otherwise leaves plenty of work for the developer to implement. I could potentially see a case for jquery-localize to make use of globalize, but I'd have to understand it more before making that call.

[coderifous]

RE the pull-request question: http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/

[yohanb]

Hehe I thought the same thing when I read through the documentation for the Microsoft plugin... "how do I get started?!".
Thanks for the information.

[panurge-ws]

Hello,
this could be a very handy feature.
I have edited the code proposed by yohanb with the html5 data attribute:

var elem, key, value, attr;
elem = $(this);
key = elem.data("localize");
key || (key = elem.attr("rel").match(/localize[(.*?)]/)[1]);
attr = elem.data("localize_attr");
value = valueForKey(key, data);
if (attr != null) {
return elem.attr(attr, value);
}
return localizeElement(elem, key, value);

Possible use: