jQuery 1.3 for 11.6?

[mixedpuppy <shanec@…>]

changeset:7982 updated trunk to jquery 1.3. During performance testing I applied that patch to 11.5, and see a improvement on page load within browsers.

Plugins on trac-hacks wold have to have similar updates to be compatible, but those changes are backwards compatible with jquery 1.2.6.

[Emmanuel Blot]

-1 for me: as you said: "plugins on trac-hacks wold have to have similar updates to be compatible"

I really don't think we should break compatibility with so many existing plugins for the sake of performance: 0.12 will use JQuery 1.3, and breaking compatibility with a new "major" release is easier to manage and handle. I can't imagine how many PluginIssue would be logged here after such an upgrade.

[Christian Boos]

Mmh yes, backward compatibility with plugins…

Isn't there some jQuery compatibility plugin for the 1.2 to 1.3 API changes? I know there was one for a previous upgrade (jQuery 1.1 to 1.2), but maybe the ​changes for 1.3 were too extensive for that.

If not, then I (reluctantly) agree the change is probably not worth the trouble.

Yet another reason to move on to 0.12 ;-)

[mixedpuppy <shanec@…>]

The changes for 1.3 are ​here. Yes, for the larger community, waiting on .12 is best. It might be good to start pushing plugin authors to update their plugins for use with 1.3. I don't know all the js in trac, but it seems the major item, possibly only item, is the removal of using '@'. My read on the change is that removing the '@' from selectors will not break compatibility with 1.2.

[Christian Boos]

So now that we decided to put more focus on 0.12 (see [Trac-dev] Re: About next versions (0.11.6 and 0.12)), I think such a change for 0.11-stable is not worth the trouble, so 0.11-stable will stay on jQuery 1.2.6.