jQuery Snippets & jQuery 1.4: What’s your opinion?

jQuery 1.4 was released today and jQuery founder John Resig said in a webcast that 1.4.x would be shipping with Visual Studio 2010. The jQuery Snippets for VS 2010 project I released in December currently has support for jQuery 1.3.2. How do you think the new version should be handled?

  1. Do side-by-side releases targeting 1.3.x and 1.4
  2. Remove support for 1.3.x and only support 1.4.x since it’s the version shipping with VS
  3. Update existing snippets to 1.4, add new 1.4 features and add additional snippets specifically for 1.3 only in areas where it differs

I’m leaning toward #3. There won’t need to be many 1.3 specific snippets (mostly in the CDN snippets). It may be confusing for those using 1.3 if they encounter 1.4 specific snippets and they produce code that doesn’t work with their version of jQuery.

What do you think? Comment below with your choice.

Posted January 14th, 2010 11:42 PM
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  • krunal
    Go with newer version(1.4) now onwards, do not remove the 1.3 snippets but only remove its support.

    Thanks
  • I have to agree with you... Not everyone is going to upgrade and have legacy apps to maintain as well so have full1.3.2 support is the way to go while
    also moving forward too. Option 3 I think should get the best of both.

    - Matthew
  • Remove support for 1.3.x and only support 1.4.x since it’s the version shipping with VS
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