One of the most time consuming tasks involved with running a large website can be upgrading libraries. Of course we do this all the time, but sometimes those libraries are used across the entire site. One of those libraries that we use at deviantART is jQuery. Unfortunately, we got a little bit behind with keeping jQuery up to date and we were still on version 1.7. But over the last couple of months, dt (https://www.deviantart.com/dt) has upgraded the whole deviantART network to jQuery 1.9. As you may already know, this upgrade can be slightly challenging due to the number of changes that break backwards compatibility.
The first thing that everyone attempting to upgra