Scriptaculous Inclusion in Most Plugins

  • As you may know, scriptaculous scripts are already included in the wp-includes folder of WordPress. So I don’t understand why most plugins developers don’t just re-use those files instead of including their own which just takes up more space and could cause potential conflicts with other plugins.

    Any thoughts?

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  • Probably, those are plugins that were written before that JS has been introduced into the core WP files.

    Thread Starter michaelpark

    (@michaelpark)

    Even the new plugins are written to use its own files instead of using included ones; e.g., AJAX Comments and Social Bookmarks.

    If I was writing a plugin that required functionality from scriptaculous, and I wanted the plugin to work with both the 2.0.x (which does not provide it) and the current version branches of WordPress, I would probably decide to include it.

    Thread Starter michaelpark

    (@michaelpark)

    Inclusion is fine, but I think they should at least check to see if they are already included perhaps by checking the version of WordPress.

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