JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
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Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#2I think this makes a lot of sense.
One of our products is a B2B analytics tool that leverages a custom Chrome extension for one piece of functionality. As a result, all of our users are on Chrome.
We already use chai for testing, which doesn't really work in older IE versions, and it'll be great to get the performance improvement from this change as well.
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#3I won't be using for a few a years but I am glad it is leading pushing people to CSS3 compliance.
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#4I won't be using for a few a years but I am glad it is leading pushing people to CSS3 compliance.
huh?
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#5Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it?
Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#6Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it? Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
Did you read the article? 1.9 will keep oldIE support, get minor updates, and be API-compatible with 2.0.
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#7Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it? Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
Fuck IE - they've done the same to us for years.
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#8Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it? Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
Not sure if you read the article, but 1.9 and 2.0 will basically be the same, just different underlying code. 1.9 will support IE<9, and 2.0 will be smaller/faster/more stable
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#9Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it? Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
Not sure if you read the article, but 1.9 and 2.0 will basically be the same, just different underlying code. 1.9 will support IE<9, and 2.0 will be smaller/faster/more stable
Ok. So, if I upgrade and someone does visit from an older IE browser what happens? :) I'll be back to testing browser differences.
I guess those are pretty old browsers, so oh well.
Re: JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
#10Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it? Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
It does seem a strange decision. They even address it in their post:
"jQuery was conceived specifically to address the differences in browsers, so we’re not going to abandon the essence of our philosophy and simply disregard the millions [still using] oldIE. Yet we also want to move ahead and take advantage of modern browsers, especially the growing mobile market."
The whole point of jQuery is that it's supposed to allow you to move ahead without losing backwards compatibility. Making this split -- especially with a version number, which implies a feature-freeze for 1.9 and new stuff only in 2.0 -- seems like they're just admitting defeat on their primary function.