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I reckon one of the strings is server generated. I used to do similar things when I just stared coding.
manuw
Go to healthcare.gov/es and the condition is if('es' == 'en'){} That's all ...
bladurga
If I go there it takes me to cuidadodesalud.gov/es. If I go to cuidadodesalud.gov/en it takes me to cuidadodesalud.gov/es/en which gives an error 404 saying it cannot find the page 'https://cuidadodesalud.gov/es/en' in HealthCare.gov. It doesn't make much sense to redirect to a different domain name and append the '/es'
josh_fyi
And worse, that particular mess is commented out, yet downloaded to everyone's browser.

But below, in live code, they have the same thing.

ponyous
On of the 'en's its generated by backend, so this is not always true as users may be from different country.
asadlionpk
that is just their way of telling the client-side javascript about 'en' or 'es' etc . Bad design I guess.
bladurga
No etc. If 'en' is not 'en' then it's assumed to be 'es_MX'
rajehssegu
The best of the terrible js code's I have ever encountered.
daemonk
Maybe its a place holder for future implementations