Re: [mantisbt-dev] jQuery

[Victor B. <vb...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Gianluca Sforna <gi...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi John,
> thanks for bringing this back on the table
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM, John Reese <jr...@le...> wrote:
>> After testing, it seems that jQuery doesn't interfere with any of the
>> existing Javascript/Projax implementations in Mantis, and that the two
>> libraries play well with each other.  I'm not sure if this would help to
>> spark any sort of final decisions on the subject, but it at least
>> demonstrates that it would be possible for us to maintain the existing
>> Projax features while also moving forward with new features implemented
>> in jQuery, and/or eventually updating the Projax features to jQuery.
>
> If this is the case, my preference goes to a plan like:
>
> 1. add JQuery to MantisBT (core, not plugin)
> 2. move the existing projax based stuff to jquery
> 3. get rid of projax&friends

[Victor] This plan makes sense to me.

> Additionally, please consider (at least optionially) loading JQuery
> using the google faciities at:
> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs
> as it makes things easier and faster for everyone.

[Victor] Looks like a good idea.  Is there an offline story for this?
(i.e.. a way to drop these files locally somewhere and they would be
picked up by Google api?).  For example, MantisBT installed on a
laptop that is not online for testing or development or local use?
Not a critical scenario, but was just wondering.

Regards,
Victor.