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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by martin_a on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:52AM (#25773850)
Just patched a problem in a WordPress site due to (now broken) support for IE7 two days ago. The elders of the Internet are still around. ;-)
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by spicybright on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:50AM (#25776204)
I'm so sorry. Do you want to talk about it? :P
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by martin_a on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:14AM (#25777240)
I'm not sure. It was kind of traumatic, but on the other hand it's a very old site, so it was obvious that there might be some dead bodies in the basement. Found one, ignored the others.
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by jrumbut on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:19PM (#25779962)
The IE 7 compatibility code broke the site in modern browsers, or did you really get a visitor on a Windows 98 machine?
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by martin_a on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:21AM (#25788709)
It was a bug in an old version of superfish.js which relied on a deprecated jQuery function to detect the browser. $.browser broke in the new(er/est) version of jQuery which is integrated in that site.
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