Glanthor <glanthor <at> gmail.com> writes:
the another big question is that why don't include JQuery to load automatically with _every_ pages? Now at least two wikis load JQuery v1.3.2 from common.js (see http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js, http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js), the UsabilityInitiative extension use JQuery v1.3.2 with cookie and browser plugins, and the collection extension use JQuery v1.3.2. Three JQuery, two version. This is not goooood...
Collection uses 1.2.5. I suppose we are waiting for ScriptLoader to be ready, but it would be really helpful if it would be included normally for the meantime so that site admins can start rewriting site-wide scripts. It has a very small footprint (20k minified and gzipped), it is unobtrusive (AFAIK 1.3 doesn't even conflict with other jQuery versions) and cannot be loaded through importScript() due to a bug in older Explorers, which leaves including it full in MediaWiki:Common.js which is not a nice sight...