That's great news. I've been programming in JavaScript quite a lot the last few years and i think i would've probably gone insane if i hadn't discovered jQuery. Especially for complex and intricate HTML selections it's pretty amazing what you can do with jQuery.
Also, the fact that animations are built into the core could mean it might get a little bit more simple to do visually cool things, which might make the UI more intuitive. -- Hay On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > It's great to see that you're working in this direction - I'm thinking about > working on this for a while, but didn't have a gut to undertake such > ambitious project alone ;) > > Do you have a working instance of ScriptLoader anywhere so I can aim some > performance tools at it? > > Thank you, > > Sergey > > > -- > Sergey Chernyshev > http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/ > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Michael Dale <md...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> These changes will probably result in some minor adjustments to existing >> skins. (I will try not to completely break compatibility cuz I know >> there are many custom skins out in the wild that would be no fun to stop >> working once they update medaiWiki) >> >> This consolidation of <head> includes _may_ result in _some_ un-updated >> skins referencing the same files twice which I think most browsers >> genneraly handle "oky" >> >> Enabling $wgEnableScriptLoader will not work so well with skins that >> have not been updated. Should have a patch soon. more about scriptLoader: >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ScriptLoader >> (We will most likely ship with $wgEnableScriptLoader off by default ) >> >> I am also very excited about jQuery making its way into core. Things >> like the add_media_wizard are much easier to put together with jQuery's >> nifty abstractions and msg system. More about add media wizard: >> >> http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wikimediaorg/ >> >> peace, >> michael >> >> >> Brion Vibber wrote: >> > Just a heads-up -- >> > >> > Michael Dale is working on some cleanup of how the various JavaScript >> > bits are loaded by the skins to centralize some of the currently >> > horridly spread-out code and make it easier to integrate in a >> > centralized loader so we can serve more JS together in a single >> > compressed request. >> > >> > Unless there's a strong objection I'd be very happy for this to also >> > include loading up the jQuery core library as a standard component. >> > >> > The minified jQuery core is 19k gzipped, and can simplify other JS code >> > significantly so we can likely chop down wikibits.js, mwsuggest.js, and >> > the site-customized Monobook.js files by a large margin for a net >> savings. >> > >> > If you've done browser-side JavaScript development without jQuery and >> > wanted to kill yourself, I highly recommend you try jQuery -- it's >> > sooooo nice. :) >> > >> > -- brion >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
