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Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with... by jorgem on Thursday June 28, 2012 @08:27PM (#4174624)
Ok. So, if I upgrade and someone does visit from an older IE browser what happens? :) I'll be back to testing browser differences.

I guess those are pretty old browsers, so oh well.

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Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with... by funksta on Thursday June 28, 2012 @08:34PM (#4174650)
It's pretty simple– if you want to support IE<9, don't upgrade to jQuery 2.x. A lot of people are already dropping support for IE<8.
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Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with... by bradly on Thursday June 28, 2012 @08:42PM (#4174681)
It's really not that simple. Now you have to check to see if a plugins support 1.9 or 2.0, and plugin writers will have to support both or IE8 supporters will have to live without new plugins.
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Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with... by mfjordvald on Thursday June 28, 2012 @09:29PM (#4174814)
The article specifically states that 1.9 and 2.0 will be API compatible. So no, you won't have to do anything other than include the proper version and forget about it.
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Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with... by mrpollo on Thursday June 28, 2012 @08:33PM (#4174648)
well they do provide 1.9 to handle that, this is is how they recommend you handle that

<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="jquery-1.9.0.js"></script><![endif]-->

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