[Building Sakai] jQuery 1.1.4 > 1.3.2 Upgrade for 2.7?

[Stephen Marquard]

Upgrading the portal seems easy, especially if Eli has committed to pursue any resulting issues. Eli, can you create a JIRA for this?

The question really is whether we continue with a shared version for multiple projects, or let each project do its own thing (referencing a specific version). Some projects have bundled newer versions anyway, so perhaps that's inevitable. 

Cheers
Stephen




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>>> Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu> 7/16/2009 2:34 AM >>>
Hi folks,
Every time that I notice that the Portal is using jQuery 1.1.4, I  
cringe. This version, while very stable, is very old (August 2007).  
The current version is 1.3.2 released in Feb 2009. This version is  
also very stable and much, much faster.

I'd like to suggest that we upgrade to 1.3.2 for 2.7. By the time  
there may be jQuery 1.4 or even the mythical jQuery 2.0 but even 1.3.2  
would be a huge step forward.

There is usually a fair amount of backwards compatibility in jQuery.  
However, this is a big jump and I suspect that there will be some  
issues. I'm happy to take responsibility for any portal problems that  
emerge.

The bigger issue is what to do with bugs that come up in tools that  
might be utilizing /library/js/jquery.js. That is a bigger risk.

Any thoughts?

- Eli

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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley