diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/web/data/cubicweb.compat.js
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/cubicweb/web/data/cubicweb.compat.js	Sat Jan 16 13:48:51 2016 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/**
+ * .. function:: cw.utils.deprecatedFunction(msg, function)
+ *
+ * jQUery flattens arrays returned by the mapping function: ::
+ *
+ *   >>> y = ['a:b:c', 'd:e']
+ *   >>> jQuery.map(y, function(y) { return y.split(':');})
+ *   ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
+ *   // where one would expect:
+ *   [ ["a", "b", "c"], ["d", "e"] ]
+ */
+ // XXX why not the same argument order as $.map and forEach ?
+
+function map(func, array) {
+    var result = [];
+    for (var i = 0, length = array.length; i < length; i++) {
+        result.push(func(array[i]));
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+
+// skm cube still uses this
+getNodeAttribute = cw.utils.deprecatedFunction(
+    '[3.9] getNodeAttribute(node, attr) is deprecated, use $(node).attr(attr)',
+    function(node, attribute) {
+        return $(node).attr(attribute);
+    }
+);