Now, don't jump on me for saying this, again,
but I think it's time for T6.

On Oct 19, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:

> I you've seen the commits, you know I've been attacking the
> client-side JavaScript with a chainsaw.  Not everything is working,
> especially the tests (!), but what does work is kicking ass.
> 
> However, maintaining backwards compatibility is proving to be a huge 
> challenge.
> 
> Keeping all the components working is not going to be that hard;
> neither will making them work with either foundation (Prototype or
> jQuery).
> 
> What is going to be increasingly hard to keeping the Tapestry and T5
> namespaces working the same as before.
> 
> So the question is ... what are the downsides of just ignoring
> compatibility?  Again, this is strictly on the client side, and
> relates to all the effectively un-documented JavaScript code scattered
> about in the existing tapestry.js and t5-*.js libraries.
> 
> I know this will affect my applications a bit; it means that 5.4 will
> be a more difficult transition as my code has a lot of patches around
> T5 limitations.  Even so, I suspect it will be just a matter of a
> couple of days to upgrade the existing app.
> 
> -- 
> Howard M. Lewis Ship
> 
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> 
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