Re: jQuery + IE8--told you so

On Apr 7, 10:35 pm, Thomas Allen <thomasmal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I just upgraded to IE8 on my Windows VM, and lo and behold, all
of the jQuery functionality on my websites works perfectly, including

Or so you think. But does it matter if it is somehow straddling the
land mines? You can't have the slightest confidence in twiddling with
them now (again, the exceptions are the irretrievably stupid.) You
might as well tear them down and start over. Of course, you would
have to learn Javascript basics first.

some pretty complex interfaces (Views UI in Drupal, for one). I guess
it is, like David said, jQuery's Y2K: Nothing happened.

So all of those other reports were figments of imagination; your five
minutes of surfing and expert observation trump all of them (plus the
code?)

What happened is three years of conditioning went out the window.
There's no actual documentation for the attr and related methods, so
clearly people were going by their experience. The rules have changed
overnight (if you can call all those months of IE8 Beta testing
overnight), exacerbating what was an existing and fatal flaw in the
design and forcing everyone to come to a screeching halt to reevaluate
their own code. Also broke lots of plugins, Websites, applications,
mashups, etc. But you know that.

There's no easy way to fix it either. They can't even fix the
documentation as it wouldn't approach "concise" after that. Certainly
they can't rewrite the books or reprogram everyone's brains, so they
are pretty much stuck at this point. I don't think they understand
the issue(s) anyway. If they had understood them, they never would
have slept through IE8. I know you don't understand them, so why do
you feel compelled to play the role of the apologist?

Which version are you using BTW and perhaps you would like to share
your wonderful examples of progressive enhancement through jQuery?
They will likely expose the flaws in your thinking.

.

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