Re:JQuery 2.0 Released
by lessnonymous on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:54PM
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It's not about being able to access 1.x in the long term from a CDN. The problem is whether it will still be supported. If there are bugs in 1.x, will they be fixed? Will 1.x support Chrome v40 and IE 15?
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Backporting bugfixes has a cost. Requiring 1.x to support IE15 pushes that cost onto the jQuery developers instead of where it rightfully belongs: migrating your app to a recent version.
Re:JQuery 2.0 Released
by darkandbrooding on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:58AM
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Thanks for the clarification. Although the JQuery team didn't announce any end date for support of 1.x, I appreciate the ticking clock implicit in the major version bump.
I suspect that a comment made by user Zangrief is right on the money - enterprise users will increasingly take over maintenance of the 1.x branch out of necessity.