Re: [Chicken-users] JQuery in Chickadee

[.alyn.post.]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:24:54AM -0700, Matt Gushee wrote:
>    Last night I got a shock when I tried to use Chickadee (as I often do
>    these days). The "Contents" section was at the bottom of the page,
>    expanded, instead of collapsed at the top; the "TOC" section wouldn't
>    expand, and incremental search wasn't working. It was rather mystifing,
>    since I knew I hadn't installed or uninstalled any eggs for at least a
>    couple of weeks, nor altered my Chicken configuration in any way.
>    Eventually I got around to examine the Chickadee config file, where i
>    discovered that Chickadee uses JQuery, accessed by default over the
>    internet. Then I remembered that I had cleared my browser cache a day or
>    two before ... and since I was working offline, that must be the problem.
>    And indeed, I happened to have a copy of the JQuery library on my system,
>    so I copied it into the Chickadee tree and edited the configuration to
>    point to the local copy. Problem solved!
>    But I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to simply bundle JQuery with
>    Chickadee in the first place--after all, I would think that offline usage
>    is one of the major reasons for having Chickadee in the first place, and
>    people do need to clear their caches now and then for a variety of
>    reasons. I can't see any non-trivial disadvantages to bundling the
>    library, unless there is a licensing conflict.
>    What says the community?

I'm not currently using this feature, but I work offline a fair bit,
so the idea gets a +1 from me.

-Alan
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