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

[Speelmon, Lance Day]

Agreed - what if we just reference the central versions from google -  
this would allow projects to use their own versions while gaining the  
benefits of having jquery in cache...  Thoughts?  L

e.g.:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/ 
jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>



Lance Speelmon
Scholarly Technologist

On Jul 16, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> It would be nice for every project that uses jQuery to use a central
> one, that way it is probably cached by the time you get to it so it
> will make loading even faster.
> But as noted, it gets dated real quick so projects ship their own.
> Library upgrades like these we need to keep on top of. Most don't
> break backwards functionality unless you are binding to a really old
> version to begin with.
>
> +1 to Clay's suggestion, upgrade early (now), and get any issues
> resolved early. Likewise for the other libraries we need to
> upgrade(commons-lang et al)
>
>
> cheers,
> Steve
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> Steve Swinsburg
> Portal Systems Developer
> Centre for e-Science
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster
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> email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
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> On 16 Jul 2009, at 08:51, Stephen Marquard wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
>> Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
>> http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
>> Email/IM/XMPP: stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za
>> Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290
>>>>> 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
>>
>>
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