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Comment by dmethvin | Hacker News Reader

That wasn't a bug that jQuery reported or has encountered. The ones we report probably aren't half a line of code to fix. And as for why we don't fix them ourselves, I can't speak for the rest of the jQuery team but one unpaid volunteer open source job is plenty for me.

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Is it safe to assume that any bugs that you're running in to are being reported to the browser vendors?

The most telling thing that jQuery (or any other library) could do would be to have a policy that any browser bug workaround has to be accompanied by both a) a bug report to the browser vendor and b) a corresponding test to the relevant W3C testsuite. That would put public pressure on browser vendors to fix the issue, and provide the jQuery team with a convenient way of telling when the workaround was no longer needed.

Speaking as someone that has spent time working on a web browser, that would be a fantastic policy, both for browser developers and for web standards in general.

Sadly, from what I can tell, at least some browser vendors (and more importantly the developers working for them) don't particularly care about whether they pass W3C test suites....

Yes, we try to put a link into our tracker with the ticket in their tracker for both bugs and spec ambiguities. Note that several are a few years old and are still open.

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11663 http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12986 http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12968 http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12964 http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10509 http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12577

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