I wonder if it would be helpful to have a backwards incompatible changes section for every jQuery release, and a master page somewhere collating all those changes. The changes are usually highlighted in the release notes, but it'd be more clear if there was a section specifically calling out the things that might break.
Or maybe a tool similar to the Python 2to3 convertor that flagged problem areas in source like @. -- dz On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:11 AM, John Resig <[email protected]> wrote: > > This sounds more like a problem of circumstances. IE was being > unhelpful and not providing the nice error message that we specified - > and the error was only happening in IE (since the fix was browser > specific). All of it was very unfortunate - but I'm not sure if > there's a lot that we can do on our end. (We've documented the change, > we throw a helpful exception.) > > Ugh, I can definitely commiserate, though :-/ > > --John > > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:04 AM, THD <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The selector 'i...@src$=png]' failed with the latest version of jQuery >> (Sizzle). >> At first I thought this problem only occured in IE6, but that was just >> because it only got executed in the png alpha fix for IE6). I only >> found this problem after a long search, only to find a small message >> in the documentation that the @ is the culprit since it wasn't >> supported in 1.3.x. >> >> My main problem was that IE (both IE6 and IE7) reports a generic error >> instead of the error thrown by jQuery (the error you get is that the >> thrown error isn't handled). Only after adding my own alert to the >> jQuery source IE reported the specific selector that caused the >> problem. >> Especially for large pieces of code with a lot of selectors that might >> be broken by upgrading jQuery the reporting of error in the selectors >> can be *very* useful. >> >> The question of course remains: Is this unhandled exception a bug or a >> feature? >> >> Regards, >> THD >> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
