1043549 - Allow using string placeholders in error messages

Status: NEW

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Due to nsIDocument::WarnOnceAbout() not supporting placeholders, the localizers currently have to translate big amounts of nearly identical strings, for example, here's a recently committed patch, which makes localizers waste their time on ~20 nearly identical strings: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/diff/3bb907654de0/dom/locales/en-US/chrome/dom/dom.properties .

It would be great if we (the L10n people) didn't have to waste our time on these repetitions, so please make it possible to use placeholders (%S) in these error messages, and then please use them.