jquery-1.9

I am trying to use a jQuery plugin on my site which uses jQuery 1.6.2. When I change the jQuery version to 1.9 the plugin no longer works. I thought there was a backwards compatibility feature in jQuery. Is there any way to know/fix the code that does not work in 1.9? If it helps I am trying to use a plugin called CropZoom and here is the link. Also, let me know if there is similar plugin the same features. I'll appreciate it. Thanks This is How jQuery tell's you to fix it: We realize that existing sites and plugins may be affected by these changes, and are providing the jQuery Migrate plugin

I'm making a REST DELETE call, which returns a 204. In jQuery 1.8.3 this works, and hits the request.done callback. But if I use 1.9 it goes to request.fail with a parsererror in the textStatus and a 'SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input' in the errorThrown. remove = function (complete) { var self = this; var request = $.ajax({ context: self, url: "/v1/item/" + itemId, dataType: "json", type: "DELETE" }); request.done(removeCallback); request.fail(function (xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) { alert(errorThrown); }); }, Anyone know what has changed in 1.9 that would cause this to fail, and what

Background As of jQuery 1.9 the .attr(..) method no longer returns property values, instead we now have to use .prop(..) . Unfortunately this also applies to attributes specified via an attributes selector i.e. $("input[value=]") See http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#attr-versus-prop- and a good SO discussion on the differences between .attr and .prop : .prop() vs .attr() My Situation I'm currently using selectors like $("input[value=]") and $("select[value=]") to select input elements that have no value set. However, this no longer works with jQuery 1.9, instead I'm now doing something