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JQuery 1.7 Released

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Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by igravious »

luriel wrote: post #29
vessenes wrote: post #15

My favorite part of the release notes: "Despite jQuery.isNaN() being undocumented, several projects on Github were using it. We have contacted them and asked that they use jQuery.isNumeric() or some other solution." This is an excellent reminder of how much things have changed in the last 10 years in our space; a popular tools vendor can go query a massive source code repository and reach out proactively for transiti…

This is one of the reasons why Google killing Code Search is so sad.

Bit of a me too post, totally agree, so sad.

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by alastair »

bad_user wrote: post #24

One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.

Why isn't there a tool that analyzes which functions / features of jQuery your project is using and generates a smaller library with only the stuff you need?

I'm not really a developer so ignore if that's not possible / makes no sense.

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by lucianof »

alastair wrote: post #32
bad_user wrote: post #24

One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.

Why isn't there a tool that analyzes which functions / features of jQuery your project is using and generates a smaller library with only the stuff you need? I'm not really a developer so ignore if that's not possible / makes no sense.

That plus server-side browser sniffing to serve only what the user's browser needs could result in an extremely reduced file size. But of course the PITA would then be to maintain that.

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by Flenser »

luriel wrote: post #29
vessenes wrote: post #15

My favorite part of the release notes: "Despite jQuery.isNaN() being undocumented, several projects on Github were using it. We have contacted them and asked that they use jQuery.isNumeric() or some other solution." This is an excellent reminder of how much things have changed in the last 10 years in our space; a popular tools vendor can go query a massive source code repository and reach out proactively for transiti…

This is one of the reasons why Google killing Code Search is so sad.

"To optimize the code for the most commonly used forms of selectors, we examined a cross-section of code from Google Codesearch."

I assume they found those github projects using code search. Code search may not be used a lot, but the people and projects using it have a large impact. Is there any way we can convince Google it's worth keeping it available?

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by jonknee »

bad_user wrote: post #24

One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.

That's somewhat mitigated with the CDN version (most users won't have to download it).

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by JoachimSchipper »

alastair wrote: post #32
bad_user wrote: post #24

One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.

Why isn't there a tool that analyzes which functions / features of jQuery your project is using and generates a smaller library with only the stuff you need? I'm not really a developer so ignore if that's not possible / makes no sense.

Google's Closure compiler can apparently do that.

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by raleec »

brunnsbe wrote: post #34

It's always nice with new features and enhancements but some bugs should first be fixed, like e.g. this one (i cannot update my code to a version higher than 1.5.x due to customers still using IE7): http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9646

Hear hear.

I had to work around this insidious creation http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8205

It creates a memory leak (it hit my getJSON calls) that slowly strangled one of my apps until it crashed the browser.

I list a lot of hours on that one...

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by nicolsc »

kellishaver wrote: post #27
bad_user wrote: post #24

One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.

I've been leaning more and more toward Zepto for mobile. It's still lacking a fair bit of jQuery's functionality, but the basics are there and the syntax is compatible. You lose a lot of IE/older browser support, but if you do some device sniffing and serve jQuery to desktops and Zepto to mobile devices, that's not really an issue.

Zepto is great if you're targeting iOS devices, or any webkit-based browser. But you'll need something else to handle Opera, which is 'quite' popular among mobile devices.

Re: JQuery 1.7 Released

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Post by JonnieCache »

jonknee wrote: post #36
bad_user wrote: post #24

One thing I don't like about jQuery's evolution is the size. This version weights at 92K minified / 33K gzipped, which for mobile phones is a PITA.

That's somewhat mitigated with the CDN version (most users won't have to download it).

That doesn't apply in mobile though, you basically have to think as if the cache is always empty, because it usually is. Especially on iOS.
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