TESTS - RangeInput 1.2.8 and compatibility with jQuery 1.91

[alibby251]

The dev version of RangeInput, which will become 1.2.8, works with jQuery 1.9.1 as long as the jQuery migrate plugin is used; use of the migrate plugin has revealed this warning:

Use of jQuery.fn.data('events') is deprecated

A check at https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/blob/master/warnings.md shows this:

"JQMIGRATE: Use of jQuery.fn.data('events') is deprecated

Cause: Prior to 1.9, .data("events") could be used to retrieve jQuery's undocumented internal event data structure for an element if no other code had defined a data element with the name "events". This special case has been removed in 1.9.

Solution: There is no public interface to retrieve this internal data structure, and it remains undocumented. The only useful applications might be for debugging. The data is available via jQuery._data("events") but this is not a documented interface."

From what I can see in the code, it seems to be at lines 134-137 in RangeInput, that causes this issue:

    function hasEvent(el) {
        var e = el.data("events");
        return e && e.onSlide;
    }

Any solutions/suggestions welcome...

FYI - I think this was the bug report relating to the above deprecation: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10589...

[alibby251]

An update:

For the moment, I've created updated demos, that contain patched versions of RangeInput which include the functionality removed as part of jQuery 1.9.1 - they are:

Minimal setup for rangeinput - http://jsfiddle.net/alibby251/WH57r/
A couple of vertical ranges - http://jsfiddle.net/alibby251/BwwyZ/
Multiple small ranges - http://jsfiddle.net/alibby251/YEckz/
A custom scrollbar for a DIV - http://jsfiddle.net/alibby251/uycgv/

Although the above all appear to work OK, and don't flag up the warnings, it would be good to update the code to include a more permanent/better fix for the jQuery.fn.data('events') is deprecated warning.

Please feel free to try them out - any comments/issues with compatibility with jQuery 1.9.1, please post here.

[alibby251]

I've completed initial tests on the above in IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari - so far, all have them have tested OK with the changes required to ensure compatibility with jQuery 1.9.1. As I haven't seen any reports of issues with the changes made in the above demos, then I will be looking to commit those changes to source, and push the dev version of jQuery Tools into what will be Tools 1.2.8.