[wp-hackers] Include popular libs with a function

Robin Adrianse shorty114 at shorty114.net
Sat Aug 19 01:13:00 GMT 2006


It's a good idea, but when you add a lot of 3rd party JS libraries, keeping
them up to date may become a pain, more importantly if a XSS exploit or so
on is discovered and a fix is released, but takes a while to get into the WP
core's version.

On 8/18/06, Sean Hickey <seanhickey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After looking through the source code, it seems like this solution
> doesn't fully satisfy my original request, which is to include JS libs
> that would be beneficial to plugin developers, not just libs that WP
> uses.
>
> You're now including Prototype, which is cool, but you seem to be
> including it mostly because WP now uses it.  I'd also like to see libs
> like Scriptaculous, Dojo, etc included.  It doesn't matter if WP
> itself never uses them.  What matters is they are already there for
> plugin developers to use.
>
> - Sean
>
> P.S. It would also be helpful to include useful PHP libs like Domit!,
> PHP.XPath, etc for plugin developers to use.
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