JQuery 1.5 and new “Text JSON” datatype

Question

I have just updated to JQuery 1.5 and all my ajax calls that return JSON and a number of plugins instantly broke.

In my pre-1.5 code, I specified the dataType like:<

Answer 1

I came across this JQuery bug which fixes the problem http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8084.

Adding the following code after the JQuery script declaration fixes the problem:

$.ajaxSetup({ jsonp: null, jsonpCallback: null });