Question

We need to be able to localize strings in javascript – thinking for things like the app_offline.htm file etc.

jquery globalize is hectic and seems like total overkill. Is there a simple jquery plugin or anything really that will allow us to localize js strings?

Answer 1

At the risk of over simplifying:

var globals = {
    en-US: {
        color:'color',
        cell:'cell phone'
    },
    en-GB: {
        color: 'colour',
        cell: 'mobile phone'
    }
};

To use:

text = globals[lang].color;

where lang = ‘en-US’ etc

You can either generate that structure on the server and use resource files etc there, or just keep this object literal in a global.js or similar.