XMLHttpRequest with fetch and migrate e2e tests to Playwright (#3950)
### 1. Replace `XMLHttpRequest` with the modern `fetch` API for loading translation files #### Changes - **translator.js**: Use `fetch` with `async/await` instead of XHR callbacks - **loader.js**: Align URL handling and add error handling (follow-up to fetch migration) - **Tests**: Update infrastructure for `fetch` compatibility #### Benefits - Modern standard API - Cleaner, more readable code - Better error handling and fallback mechanisms ### 2. Migrate e2e tests to Playwright This wasn't originally planned for this PR, but is related. While investigating suspicious log entries which surfaced after the fetch migration I kept running into JSDOM’s limitations. That pushed me to migrate the E2E suite to Playwright instead. #### Changes - switch e2e harness to Playwright (`tests/e2e/helpers/global-setup.js`) - rewrite specs to use Playwright locators + shared `expectTextContent` - install Chromium via `npx playwright install --with-deps` in CI #### Benefits - much closer to real browser behaviour - and no more fighting JSDOM’s quirks
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