Max, as far as I know it was kept (see r59450 [1]) because it was already being used the Usability Initiative and LiquidThreads, that Wikimedia has in active deployment.
Looks like that piece is not going anywhere and there are good reasons to keep/consider it stable.
Siebrand
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACode%2FMediaWiki%2Fpath...
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Max Semenik Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 8:06 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery and extensions
On 04.01.2010, 0:02 Siebrand wrote:
Just a little roadmap info: mwEmbed[1], contaning jQuery, will not be part of MediaWiki 1.16. It will be added in a later version. Tim Starling pulled it from trunk a few weeks ago and Michael Dale has continued working on it in a branch.
I expect it will be added again after the branching/tagging of 1.16, and be part of 1.17 after a thorough shake down during the 1.17 alpha period.
Siebrand
Nevertheless, there is js2/js2stopgap.js that looks like jQuery or a piece of it. It it safe to use it?