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I understand why they'd drop IE8 support in 2.0 but it's still a bitter pill to swallow.
by numbnuts 14y ago
I understand why they'd drop IE8 support in 2.0 but it's still a bitter pill to swallow.
- halvsjur 14y ago> Some glorious day in the future, jQuery 2.0 will be the only version you’ll need; until then we’ll continue to maintain jQuery 1.9 The benefit is that if you're targeting mobile only, you can use the optimized 2.0. For other use case there's still going to be 1.9.
- pdwetz 14y agoIf you're primarily focused on older IE's, I think it's assumed you're dealing with a forced intranet environment (typically government/military/large corp) and/or need to focus on stability, not the latest and greatest. Part of me says "good riddance" as I never got the lock in to XP, but I get why devs might be annoyed with being stuck at 1.9 for the foreseeable future.
- zalambar 14y agoWe're not going to be "stuck" with 1.9. Use 2.0 for a smaller and faster library on modern browsers and 1.9 to continue to support old IE versions. http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-and-beyond/ http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an... "Our goal is for 1.9 and 2.0 to be interchangeable as far as the API set they support. When 2.0 comes out, your decision on which version to choose should be as simple as this: If you need IE 6/7/8 support, choose 1.9; otherwise you can use either 1.9 or 2.0. ... If your web site needs oldIE support, and we expect most sites will need it for at least another year or two, you can use IE conditional comments to include version 1.9 only when visitors are using oldIE:"