• (nodebb)

    I think the loop with the ResourceHelper might be a frist attempt at localization of the month names. Probably not the best way to do it, but not nearly as much of a WTF as the colors.

  • (nodebb)

    I'm with @Dragnslcr on the ResourceHelper stuff, both for what it's trying to be for and for its suboptimality.

    As for the colors stuff, I'm leaning toward it being a way to "pale out" ("grey out" using very pale colours) deactivated/disabled things.

    Note: not a good way of doing that (one should trust the browser to do something intelligent, or if the browser can't be trusted, one should use different CSS style IDs to indicate it(1)...), but just a way.

    (1) And go for reduction-to-more-greyish rather than fade-to-pale, but ...

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to Dragnslcr

    If this is Java, the best way would be to use DateFormatSymbols (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/24/docs/api/java.base/java/text/DateFormatSymbols.html). After all, why reinvent the wheel?

  • Jason Stringify (unregistered)

    That doesn't look like JavaScript to me.

  • (nodebb)

    There's the obvious issue of using JavaScript to manage colors

    That's not JavaScript... Probably Java.

  • TrueWill (unregistered)

    Sometimes rockstars just explode.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    I agree this is probably Java. Which means no browser to trust to do things. And I agree with Steve that this is greying out stuff, and I'll add that it's probably an afterthought to the original design. Good, no. Horrible, probably not.

  • (nodebb)

    Rock star developers were more rock stars (drinking and partying hard) than developers, which explains everything.

  • (nodebb)

    "After all, why reinvent the wheel?" Because the wheel wasn't invented here of course.

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