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-rw-r--r--mod/developers/languages/en.php3
-rw-r--r--mod/developers/start.php9
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mod/developers/languages/en.php b/mod/developers/languages/en.php
index 856efe008..266b5406e 100644
--- a/mod/developers/languages/en.php
+++ b/mod/developers/languages/en.php
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ $english = array(
'developers:label:show_strings' => "Show raw translation strings",
'developers:help:show_strings' => "This displays the translation strings used by elgg_echo().",
'developers:label:wrap_views' => "Wrap views",
- 'developers:help:wrap_views' => "This wraps almost every view with HTML comments. Useful for finding the view creating particular HTML.",
+ 'developers:help:wrap_views' => "This wraps almost every view with HTML comments. Useful for finding the view creating particular HTML.
+ This can break non-HTML views in the default viewtype. See developers_wrap_views() for details.",
'developers:label:log_events' => "Log events and plugin hooks",
'developers:help:log_events' => "Write events and plugin hooks to the log. Warning: there are many of these per page.",
diff --git a/mod/developers/start.php b/mod/developers/start.php
index 413a8ed9b..94d0f652c 100644
--- a/mod/developers/start.php
+++ b/mod/developers/start.php
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ function developers_clear_strings() {
/**
* Post-process a view to add wrapper comments to it
+ *
+ * 1. Only process views served with the 'default' viewtype.
+ * 2. Does not wrap views that begin with js/ or css/ as they are not HTML.
+ * 3. Does not wrap views that are images (start with icon/). Is this still true?
+ * 4. Does not wrap input and output views (why?).
+ * 5. Does not wrap html head or the primary page shells
+ *
+ * @warning this will break views in the default viewtype that return non-HTML data
+ * that do not match the above restrictions.
*/
function developers_wrap_views($hook, $type, $result, $params) {
if (elgg_get_viewtype() != "default") {