No, you're not supposed to know or care about any of this. Also don't thank me quite so fast... I used to work at Splunk and I was the principal developer for all the code involved here. So there is blood on my hands here.
Splunk at that time had a problem allowing developers to spend time on hard-to-quantify framework improvements, which is partly why we sometimes spent even more time doing little atomic patches on fundamentally bad systems.
Sideview doesn't have this problem, which is why Sideview Utils has over the years thrown the majority of the Splunk ui code away and replaced it.
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