Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

2012-11-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I can understand the rationale behind removing jQuery.browser: apparently most developers are too stupid to be trusted with it. Maybe the idea is to use per-project reimplementation of jQuery.browser as an intelligence

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

2012-11-16 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 9, 2012, at 2:17 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I can understand the rationale behind removing jQuery.browser: apparently most developers are too stupid to be trusted with it. Maybe the idea is to use per-project reimplementation of jQuery.browser as an intelligence

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

2012-11-08 Thread Jérémie Roquet
Hi Timo, 2012/11/7 Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com: Just a reminder that jQuery will (after almost 4 years of deprecation!) drop $.browser [1] in jQuery 1.9. Thanks for the reminder: it was still used in the MediaWiki:Commons.js of the French Wikipedia. What frightens me a bit is that I've been

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Starling
On 07/11/12 13:09, Krinkle wrote: In most (if not all) cases of people using $.browser it is because they want different behaviour for browsers that don't support a certain something. Please take a minute to look at the code and find out what it is you are special-casing for that

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

2012-11-07 Thread .
On 7 November 2012 03:09, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: .. == Feature detection In most (if not all) cases of people using $.browser it is because they want different behaviour for browsers that don't support a certain something. Please take a minute to look at the code and find out

[Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

2012-11-06 Thread Krinkle
Hey all, Just a reminder that jQuery will (after almost 4 years of deprecation!) drop $.browser [1] in jQuery 1.9. Please check your scripts and make sure you are are no longer using $.browser (or jQuery.browser). After jQuery 1.9 is released, from the next MediaWiki deployment after that