- F6 changes the paging control (for the better) to require that there
be no `a` tag for the elements which can't be clicked on in the pager.
Unforuntately F5 requires them, so we need to detect which one is to
be used. This is done using a meta tag based on this discussion:
- http://foundation.zurb.com/forum/posts/36681
- F5 remains the main version for the moment, but will be bumped to F6
when the next version of DataTables is released
- Factory builder redesigned to pass in window and document to the
factory method, mandating a small update to the AMD and Browser
loaders
- Main change in is the CommonJS loader which can now optionally have a
window object passed in - if it is not passed in `window` will be used
(if this is the case in a CommonJS environment without a root object
being passed in an error will occur).
- DataTables caches a reference to the jQuery instance so the plug-ins
can easily reference jQuery while retaining their current return of
the module they define. This basically means that DataTables core will
include jQuery for the plug-ins.
- This does increase the core library size by ~160 bytes which is rather
frustrating, but I think this is the correct way to go about it
- With thanks to Evan Carroll for input on this:
https://github.com/DataTables/Plugins/issues/199
- Using just `datatables` would be difficult since I and others already
publish packages with that name. Anyone using those packages already
would run into real issues if I were to change their meaning and
contents!
- Cannot pass in a `dt` instance - will always use the one from the
jQuery instance given
- Don't check for reinitialisation or for jQuery when working in the
browser - will throw an error if in browser and no jQuery, which is
correct, DataTables needs jQuery
New: CommonJS will load jQuery if it wasn't passed in
Fix: Bootstrap, Foundation and jQuery UI integration Javascript files use module.exports correctly
Dev: Change the file include "function" name to not conflict with `require`
- AMD / RequireJS - The Require documentation strongly discorages using
a named module, but I've used this in the past as the plug-ins need a
name to depend upon themselves. This is still `datatables` but if the
developer is using Require and it resolves automatically to a
different name (which it may depending upon their configuration) they
can use a map option to map their name to `datatables`. See
https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/1095
- CommonJS - Based on the disscussion in
https://github.com/DataTables/Plugins/issues/199 it seems that some
developers like to pass a certain version of jQuery in. This
modification allows them to do so while retaining backwards
compatiblity.
- Integration files - The UMD wrapper for these files have been
restructured to be easier to follow. Also, based on the discussion in
the Plugins issue noted above you can now pass in a jQuery instance or
not and likewise a DataTables object or not.
- To avoid direct conflict with `require()` the build scripts have been
updated to use a "function" called `_buildInclude`. Ultimatily this
should really be updated to use grunt or similar.
