Item11500: Autocomplete in Insert Link Dialog fails on Firefox with JQuery 1.4.4

Autocomplete in the "Insert Link" dialog does not work as it should.

In Firefox (version 10) Autocomplete fails completely. If you type something inside the Web- or Topic-Field, nothing happens. In Chrome (version 17.x or so) and in IE8 it seems to work correctly, BUT only with JQuery 1.7.1.

With a JQuery-Version below 1.7.1 (1.4.4) it "kinda" works in Chrome... but the retrieved Results are "random" and without any recognisable logic.

We can't update to a higher JQuery-Version (1.4.4) by now as other Foswiki-Plugins (eg. Solr Plugin) loose some functionality when we do it.

-- OliverSchaub - 03 Feb 2012

Use of jquery-1.7.1 is strongly recommended.

All other jquery versions below 1.7.1 are going away very soon. They are incompatible with jquery-ui, which contains the autocomplete library. So don't expect any ui::autocomplete to work using a jquery < 1.7.1.

Can't say what mozilla did to their browser this time

-- MichaelDaum - 03 Feb 2012

Do we know which Foswiki-Plugins are affected by the JQuery Upgrade? We already found some smaller glitches (eg. paging of SolrPlugin)

It's going to be a tough work to identify and fix them all...

-- OliverSchaub - 03 Feb 2012

All plugins have been checked against the latest JQueryPlugin.

Please use SolrPlugin from svn/trunk. I am not aware of any paging glitch in SolrPlugin.

-- MichaelDaum - 03 Feb 2012

The Result-Page of SolrPlugin throws this Javascript Error: Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [name^=foswiki.SolrPlugin.mapping]

I will open a Task for SolrPlugin with the Solution to the Problem...

-- OliverSchaub - 06 Feb 2012

See: http://foswiki.org/Tasks/Item11505

-- OliverSchaub - 06 Feb 2012

Any action left on this task item then?

-- MichaelDaum - 06 Feb 2012

No. I've Set it to "no action required"...

-- OliverSchaub - 06 Feb 2012

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