I second this. Often I'm including jquery only in order to use $() + event handling + DOM manipulation.
I like the Ajax feature, but I use it only marginally.

Olivvv

Paul McLanahan wrote:
I'm personally not sure that the entire ajax.js should be part of the
core.  jQuery to me is about DOM searching and manipulation.  Its Ajax
features are excellent, but I wouldn't cry at all if I had to include
the ajax "plugin" or "official extension" or whatever you'd like to
call it, only when I needed it.  I've actually done this on several
occasions when I wanted to save some bandwidth and I wasn't using any
of the ajax features. I've commented out ajax.js from build.xml and
packed my own ajax-free jQuery and it works great.  It only saves
around 3k packed, but that's significant when we're talking about <20k
total. I realize that the politics surrounding not having the "ajax"
buzzword included in the library by default are a significant issue in
regards to developer addoption and jQuery marketing in general.  But
it would further the goal of file size, and it really is pereferial to
the overall goal of jQuery.

Paul

On 11/14/06, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
Hi Everyone -

I want to start a discussion about the features that should go into
(or be removed from) the upcoming 1.1 release. I'd like to shoot for a
release by the end of this month.

I know that Joern already has some event code, ready to be committed -
and I have the "non-destructive jQuery" code ready to go. Brandon
mentioned that he wants to rewrite the jQuery.attr() in time for
release too.

No significant features are going to be added to this release, think
of it as jQuery 1.0++.

Right now, the jQuery compressed build is teetering around 18-19KB, I
really want to try and cut this down. Any thoughts on particular
features that should be extracted into a plugin?

For example: Since the 'form' plugin already does serialization really
really well (much better  than jQuery's serialization). I'm tempted to
remove the serialization plugin from core and just defer everyone to
using the form plugin.

Also, stuff like .height() and .width() could be removed in favor of
using the (more powerful) methods of the same name in the 'Dimensions'
plugin.

Let me know if you have any ideas.

--John

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