Today John Resig of jQuery fame released the FireUnit extension, which provides a method for unit testing javascript, integrated with Firebug. Seeing as how jQuery itself has become such an integral part of most Drupal developers' work, this looks very promising.
You can read his post about it over here.
I've been developing an AJAX module for a client that needs to run on both Drupal 5 and Drupal 4.7. Unfortunately, the jQuery 4.7 module uses the now well outdated 1.0.3 version of jQuery and I was finding a number of incompatibilities cropping up between the more recent Drupal 5 version and the older Drupal 4.7 version.
Here's a simple way to bring your Drupal 4.7 up to date with the current version of jQuery, and to allow for simple upgrades when new versions of the library are released.
One of the hot new features for the upcoming release of Drupal 5.0 is that it includes and makes use of the jQuery library.
Well, if you are running 4.7, you need not feel left out. Steve McKenzie - with a bit of help from Ted Serbinski - has released a patch that updates all of Drupal 4.7's internal javascript to make use jQuery, and allows you to develop against the jQuery library.
