Re: [SMW-devel] Including jQuery in SMW

[Jeroen De D. <jer...@gm...>]

MediaWiki 1.16 already includes jQuery 1.3.2. No jQuery UI so far though.
Should be careful not to include the 1.4.2 library when 1.3.2 has been
included by some other extension.

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On 26 May 2010 17:47, Yaron Koren <ya...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of you know, I'm mentoring a project, with Sanyam Goyal doing the
> main work, of transitioning Semantic MediaWiki and some of its spinoff
> extensions to use jQuery, the Javascript library that is set to become the
> standard for MediaWiki. To that end, we want to add jQuery into SMW itself,
> so that there's a standard version and set of files that all the extensions
> use, and so that wikis don't have to go out to the internet to get the code
> (like they usually do with YUI at this point, for some extensions). This
> would involve adding just two files to SMW's /libs directory: one for jQuery
> and one for jQuery UI, a very standard sister library for jQuery that
> provides a set of helpful effects and widgets, like autocompletion:
>
> http://jqueryui.com/
>
> Here are the two files that would need to be added (presumably the
> minimized form is better):
>
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.1/jquery-ui.min.js
>
> ...and here are the two non-minimized files, if you're curious:
>
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.1/jquery-ui.js
>
> I thought this would be a good time to add it, since SMW 1.5.1 is set to be
> released fairly soon.
>
> At some point, MediaWiki itself will include jQuery, so these files will
> become increasingly unnecessary; but such a version hasn't been released
> yet, and it'll be a long time before most people are using it.
>
> Any thoughts/objections?
>
> -Yaron
>
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