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Re: [Chicken-users] JQuery in Chickadee


From: Jim Ursetto
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] JQuery in Chickadee
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:40:50 -0600

Okay, chickadee 0.10.2 uses local jquery for the default config.
Jim

On Dec 10, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote:

> I'll look at it, it probably makes sense to use a local copy for the default 
> config.
> 
> What it should really do is fall back to the local copy if the internet copy 
> is inaccessible.  This is not difficult but there is an internal issue 
> currently preventing it.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Dec 9, 2012, at 12:24 PM, 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?
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