event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed in future

_jthomas

Hi Allan,
Using DataTables 1.8 and browser Chrome 16.x

I am seeing the following warnings(tons of them) in Chrome recently( MouseOver, sorting, search filter activities with datatables)

"event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future."

The corresponding jQuery bug ticket
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10531
You may want to consider removing layerX and layerY from $.event.props. This is a backwards-incompatible change, but it must be done.


Please advise if we need to make any changes so that it will work with future chrome releases?

Regards
Joson

allan

Hi Joson,

Neither DataTables nor any of its supported extras use layerX/Y. Given that the jQuery bug was marked as fixed for the 1.7 series, does this page, http://datatables.net/beta/1.9/examples/basic_init/zero_config.html , which uses 1.7.1 show the problem for you?

Allan

_jthomas

Hi Allan,
No, the page located at http://datatables.net/beta/1.9/examples/basic_init/zero_config.html does not show the warning. Guess we are cool!

I guess Chrome is just outputting a general warning as I can see ton of them on
http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/basic_init/zero_config.html

Regards
Joson

allan

The current release was packaged with jQuery 1.6.1 - hence since this is a jQuery issue that wasn't fixed until 1.7, the current release will certainly show that issue. Fix is to upgrade jQuery :-). DataTables 1.9 will ship with jQuery 1.7.1 (or 1.7.2 if they release that before DataTables 1.9.0 ships).

Allan

_jthomas

Hi Allan,
Thanks very much. Do you see an issue with DataTables 1.8 with JQuery 1.7.1? I thought I will just upgrade the jQuery lib alone? Please advise and thanks.

Regards
Joson

allan

No - I've used it with 1.7.1 and it passes all DataTables unit tests.

Allan

_jthomas

Cool beans :-) Thanks very much, Allan!