'event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit.' Errors

Question

I just updated Chrome to version 16.0.912.63 and now I get hundreds of errors using jQuery 1.7.1. Seems to fire whenever the mouse is moved...

event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future.

Should I be worried about this? Is anyone else getting these errors?

My useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7

UPDATE: In my case it was the Chrome extension "Search by Image (by Google) 1.1.0". I just had to disable it, it had nothing to do with my application.

Answer 1

You should only worry about this if it is:

• your website and
• you are planning to upgrade jQuery to a version > 1.7 in the future and
• you are using layerX and layerY all over the place

The message is just telling you that those two properties are deprecated (at least in Webkit) and will be removed from jQuery in the near future.