On 27/04/2009, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 Apr, 17:52, Colin Scroggins <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just want to say that I view it as an architecture flaw to have theme >> developers (plugin is understandable) dependent upon the admin-side >> jQuery version. This prevents the core Habari project from moving >> forward as it sees fit, for fear of breaking old work by the >> community. Theme developers should be encouraged to include jQuery/UI >> in their theme directories or use Google's CDN version (http:// >> code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/), as there is little >> benefit to the tie to core Habari. > > That's probably true. But since Habari include jquery it feels a bit > stupid to include it in every theme as well. Since themes probably > wont be version independent anyway updating what is needed when Habari > changes jquery version wouldn't be that hard either.
Colin was advocating using a CDN (either Google's, which allows you to specify a version, or the S3 hosted http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js). That means jQuery isn't actually included in the theme, and hence not "stupid" :) -- Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog IRC: michaeltwofish #habari --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
