[Bug 23860] Remove getElementById() from Element

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23860

--- Comment #11 from Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky from comment #10)
> > @mozillians: Is there any way to gather info on jQuery version use in Firefox?
> 
> We can try, but the version is often in neither the url nor the actual
> script...
> 

jQuery.fn.jQuery is where the version is always exposed, since 1.3 (if it's not
present, then "mostly" safe to assume it's pre-1.3)

> Also worth asking the Blink folks if they can do this.

Agreed! 

> 
> > for any major site breakage this change may cause—if there is a way to identify
> > breakage?
> 
> That's the problem.  The symptom is that some queries will just return the
> wrong nodeset.  What happens after that depends on what the site is doing. 
> And no breakage today is no guarantee of anything tomorrow.  :(
> 
> > Can the change be made temporarily? In a Nightly?
> 
> We could try; we'd have to disable our jQuery regression tests or something,
> since those also break with the change (which is how the problem was
> discovered).  That has its own problems, obviously.

Of course and I will understand if this can't happen at all. I will continue to
seeking more information about version usage and will post back here.

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Received on Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:24:48 UTC