Last modified: 2011-05-14 16:02:16 UTC
Currently, if a user of a non-english wiki goes to a page like http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:InexistentScript.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript he gets the following: /* Empty */ I think the text inserted inside this comment should be in the site language, not always in English.
This text is actually included as a workaround for Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh, which got confused by 0-byte output and kept trying to download, thus blocking other stuff in the browser. It could as easily be '/* */', and may actually be acceptable to just drop by now. (IE/Mac is pretty much dead these days, and if we're loading user/site JS/CSS via ResourceLoader it's not a case that'll regularly come up anymore.) Looks like some extensions might still be loading supplementary CSS pages like MediaWiki:GeSHi.css via action=raw though, those should get cleaned up.
I agree with brion. The comment should be removed if possible. Otherwise it can be as it is.
Special case for IE5 on OS9 was removed in r88100. Nothing to localise anymore.
