[jquery-dev] Re: selector fails without notice in 1.3.1

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Swedberg
On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:28 PM, ajpiano wrote: > > I don't know how much harder the point that @ is gone can be driven > home. It was deprecated in 1.2.6. A major problem is bad/outdated > tutorials that are still telling people the wrong way. Actually, it was deprecated in 1.1.4, but your point

[jquery-dev] Re: selector fails without notice in 1.3.1

2009-02-12 Thread John Resig
> I don't know how much harder the point that @ is gone can be driven > home. It was deprecated in 1.2.6. A major problem is bad/outdated > tutorials that are still telling people the wrong way. Actually, it was deprecated in jQuery 1.2.0 - back in 2007. --John --~--~-~--~~---

[jquery-dev] Re: selector fails without notice in 1.3.1

2009-02-12 Thread ajpiano
I don't know how much harder the point that @ is gone can be driven home. It was deprecated in 1.2.6. A major problem is bad/outdated tutorials that are still telling people the wrong way. On Feb 12, 10:35 am, David Zhou wrote: > Actually, nevermind.  I forgot there was a changes section: > >

[jquery-dev] Re: selector fails without notice in 1.3.1

2009-02-12 Thread David Zhou
Actually, nevermind. I forgot there was a changes section: http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.3#Upgrading Maybe change the "Changes" name to something more explicit like Backwards Incompatible Changes? Right now, a person scanning the release note headers could easily misconstrue that as

[jquery-dev] Re: selector fails without notice in 1.3.1

2009-02-12 Thread David Zhou
I wonder if it would be helpful to have a backwards incompatible changes section for every jQuery release, and a master page somewhere collating all those changes. The changes are usually highlighted in the release notes, but it'd be more clear if there was a section specifically calling out the

[jquery-dev] Re: selector fails without notice in 1.3.1

2009-02-12 Thread John Resig
This sounds more like a problem of circumstances. IE was being unhelpful and not providing the nice error message that we specified - and the error was only happening in IE (since the fix was browser specific). All of it was very unfortunate - but I'm not sure if there's a lot that we can do on ou