I'm trying to put together a sort of roadmap relating jQuery (and jQuery UI) at its different stages to Drupal 5 and 6 so that people can get an overview of the jQuery functionalities that are available to them. I will eventually post it to this group and if there's a suitable place in the handbook for such a thing.
One of the big questions I'm grappling with at the moment is "what about jQuery UI in Drupal 5?" I read the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/4997 and the answer is still unclear. The jQuery UI Backport module is no longer recommended by its author, saying that people should "use jQuery Update and jQuery UI 1.5 instead". However, jQuery Update only gives you jQuery 1.1.2, whereas UI requires 1.2.1 (and that's UI 1.0 so 1.5 might require an even later version). Am I missing something here?
Also, if people were to use jQuery UI 1.5 directly, for want of a supported contrib module providing the js files, what kind of conflicts would arise from the same js file being pulled by two different modules and are there recommended ways to get around this, such as jQ module or the jQuery plugins module?
If anyone has some further insight into this issue, beyond what was discussed in the thread mentioned above, it would help me a lot and when I'm finished piecing the whole jigsaw puzzle together it will hopefully help a lot of other Drupal/jQuery enthusiasts ;-)
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I think you best bet is to
I think you best bet is to focus on the jQuery Update patch at http://drupal.org/node/156221, and then pound on Jeff's door until he cuts a new release (or find a new maintainer). The jQuery UI Backport approach is still viable, but the jQuery Update approach is cleaner, since you don't need to namespace all your jQuery UI code.
Looking for volunteers!
Yes, I'm ready to be done with JQuery Update. If anyone is interested in taking over maintainership, please speak up.
You volunteering, Tao?
:-)
-= Jeff Robbins | Lullabot | Drupalize.me =-
hmmm, well I would
hmmm, well I would definitely have the interest in helping to maintain that module but I need to ascertain whether or not I'd have the expertise. I'll take a more in-depth look at that issue and the various patches that have been submitted to see what would be involved.
I may be interested in
I may be interested in helping... I have a 5.x site that needs jquery. Or am I missing something?
The process to patch D5 up
The process to patch D5 up to jQuery 1.2.3 wasn't that difficult, and there are even patches for the various D5 admin scripts which need to be updated already on here. They're just not centralized, but if we got that done, adding in jQuery UI wouldn't be so bad and it could stay as jQuery update for D5 instead.
I'll try to find the link to that patch/description of what needs to change; we didn't use the patch itself, just changed the code real fast, it was much faster due to the few lines changed.
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Yes, I'd seen there's been
Yes, I'd seen there's been lots of promising activity on this in the past couple of days. Meanwhile I've written up a blog post (part one!) that discusses this whole area. If you have comments or clarifications to add to it that would be great: http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/katherine-bailey/the-lowdo...
thanks,
Katherine