Many extensions are now using the Yahoo User Interface library. It would be nice if mediawiki included it by default.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> 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
