Matthew Gerring

Seriously dude, this change was a huge mistake on your part, and you owe your users an apology.

One of the people who edits my college newspaper just called me with his hair on fire, yelling at me because “OMG FUCK EVERYTHING IS BROKEN”, because you made a breaking change in this plugin without warning and the rest of the staff doesn’t have the skill to investigate, not that they should have had to investigate at all.

Casually changing things that causes sites to break is what causes people to abandon open source software. I fought my university for a year and a half to get them to switch to WordPress, and this is exactly the kind of thing that can erase that progress.

I can confirm this is a problem, but I get different errors. Using Chrome on OS X:

load-scripts.php:391Uncaught TypeError: Object function (a,b){return new e.fn.init(a,b,h)} has no method 'widget'
load-scripts.php:62Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'sortable'
5/wp-admin/post.php?post=956&action=edit:551Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'switchto' of undefined

And using the latest Firefox for OS X:

c.widget is not a function
[Break On This Error] (function(c){var a=0,b=9999;c.widget("...lement:this.element},d)}})})(jQuery);
load-s...320fc76 (line 391)
a(".meta-box-sortables").sortable is not a function
[Break On This Error] var postboxes,is_iPad=navigator.userAg...pbshow:false,pbhide:false}}(jQuery));
load-s...320fc76 (line 62)

And this completely breaks JavaScript for the post editor. I have nothing but Akismet turned on and Twenty Eleven is the theme.