It's not the point of this thread, but it got me thinking about something.
IE8 doesn't have the same memory problems as IE6 and IE7 does it? Is anyone interested in pulling all the IE targeted code out of jquery and checking out how much that speeds everything up for the other browsers that don't need it? Most definitely all that extra slow code targeted at memory leaks in IE. I say this while thinking of people who are working on project that already use so much HTML5 features that they don't support IE6/7 anyways. And also things like AIR projects where you are guaranteed a WebKit environment where you AFAIK never need to worry about that extra stuff. It would be interesting if we could maintain another build (conditional comments?) which was targeted at projects which don't support IE anyways, and environments like AIR where the rendering engine is known and guaranteed. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Sam Collett wrote: > IE7 does have native XMLHttpRequest, but even then jQuery does not use > it... I think because it does not work with file:// URIs. > > --Sam > > 2009/6/6 diogobaeder <diogobae...@gmail.com > <mailto:diogobae...@gmail.com>> > > > OK... fine for me... but doesn't IE7 have its own XMLHttpRequest > implementation, for example? I thought it did... > > Anyway, the worst part is getting rid of IE6, because the majority of > the users who use IE7 leave automatic update on on their Windows > boxes... as soon as IE8 pops out in the automatic updates, we'll see a > huge jump in market share from IE8... > > Diogo > > > > On Jun 5, 11:16 am, John Resig <jere...@gmail.com > <mailto:jere...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I can't think of a single thing that we could remove from jQuery > that > > wouldn't also affect IE 7.0. The JavaScript and DOM > implementations in > > IE 6 and 7 are virtually identical - and because of that there's > > really no reason for us to stop actively supporting IE 6 (at > least not > > until both 6 and 7 are dead - who knows when that will be). > > > > --John > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Diogo Baeder > <diogobae...@gmail.com <mailto:diogobae...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > What do you guys think of preparing the next versions of > jQuery for > > > IE6's death, when its use comes below, say, 0,5%, putting > comments next > > > to the methods? For example: > > > > > // TODO: Remove upon IE6's death > > > > > I mean, it would be great to remove all those workarounds we > have to use > > > only for IE6, like ActiveXObject... or am I wrong? > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Diogo > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
