id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
4988	Included jQuery library 1.1.4 may be defective	ionfish	anonymous	"There's something - not sure exactly what, given that I can't read a Gzipped JavaScript library - wrong with the included version of jQuery, 1.1.4. A previously working script (on a plugin-generated admin page) that requires jQuery's $ function (the alias for the jQuery object) no longer works, and Firebug gives me this error:

$ is not a function
[Break on this error] $(document).ready(function() {

You can see my script here:

http://tarski.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/library/options.js

I have tried including several different versions of jQuery, downloaded from the jQuery website. The 1.1.4 uncompressed and compressed versions work fine (there are no errors and my script runs as intended), as do the 1.2 uncompressed and compressed version. The error only occurs when using the jquery.js file included with WordPress.

I also thought my WordPress installation might not have downloaded that file correctly, so I deleted it and updated again from the repository (I'm running the svn trunk). That produced the same problems as before. My conclusion is that the included jQuery file may be defective in some way. I'd appreciate it if people could test this out and corroborate my findings. I know there was a plan to switch to jQuery 1.2 and that ought to fix the problem, but since it's not been done yet (and may not be until the next version?) a fix for this - if it is indeed a WordPress problem - would be most welcome."	defect (bug)	closed	normal		Administration	2.3	normal	invalid