jQuery is now on Jifty trunk.

We’ve been working on migrating the javascript code in Jifty framework from using Prototype + Scriptaculous to jQuery. It’s been a challenge but now it’s done. Officially published to Jifty trunk.

The official announcement is already posted in the jifty-devel mailing list:

http://lists.jifty.org/pipermail/jifty-devel/2008-April/001978.html

But let me re-post that message here for quick reference:

Hi,

It’s done.

We are very happy to achieve this goal. Not only because of this is such a big challenge, but also a very practical decision. jQuery is now landed to replace cssQuery and Prototype library.

Please read the manual Jifty::Manual::jQueryMigrationGuide for instructions to migrate your application to use jQuery by default.

Prototype libraries are now a plugin, named “Prototypism”. (Jifty::Plugin::Prototypism), it includes prototype 1.6.0 and Scriptaculous 1.5.1. This plugin is auto-included for old applications for those might have some custom javascript code depending on it. It’s disabled for applications with ConfigFileVersion > 3. Please also read jQuery::Manual::jQueryMigrationGuide about this plugin.

Besides migration to jQuery, we’ve also documented our Javascript API in this pod: Jifty::Manual::JavaScript. The top-level “Jifty” namespace is introduced to avoid global variable naming conflict. Please read Jifty::Manual::JavaScript for detail. It also have a short tutorial about jQuery too. JavaScript developers in Jifty must read this document to know why we created a function named Jifty.$.

That’s all. Thanks very much for helping us out to finish this task.