Exactly because this is the kind of requests we're going to get, I think it makes sense not to have any library bundled by default, but have a centralized handling for libraries, e.g. one extension asks for latest jQuery and latest YUI and MW loads them, another extension asks for jQuery only and so on.
It can be similar or simply using Google lib loader: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/ Thank you, Sergey -- Sergey Chernyshev http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/ On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Many extensions are now using the Yahoo User Interface library. It would be > nice if mediawiki included it by default. > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just a heads-up -- > > > > Michael Dale is working on some cleanup of how the various JavaScript > > bits are loaded by the skins to centralize some of the currently > > horridly spread-out code and make it easier to integrate in a > > centralized loader so we can serve more JS together in a single > > compressed request. > > > > Unless there's a strong objection I'd be very happy for this to also > > include loading up the jQuery core library as a standard component. > > > > The minified jQuery core is 19k gzipped, and can simplify other JS code > > significantly so we can likely chop down wikibits.js, mwsuggest.js, and > > the site-customized Monobook.js files by a large margin for a net > savings. > > > > If you've done browser-side JavaScript development without jQuery and > > wanted to kill yourself, I highly recommend you try jQuery -- it's > > sooooo nice. :) > > > > -- brion > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
