Crazy way to change third party scripts

Ajax Blogs - 330 days ago Posted by bluray

Paul Irish posted a crazy method for tweaking third party scripts. His problem was that he was using MultiMap (online Mapping API) and wanted to internationalize the information, but it was hard coded in the JavaScript.
To get around the problem he does this:
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// WARNING!!  This is such a massive hack. Oh-so-hackalicious
 
// Problem:     Multimap [...]

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