limodou wrote:
> I know that prototype extends built-in classes , just like array,
> string, etc, so many things can be easily processed. Does jquery has
> the same things? I can only found that the API seems aimed to jQuery
> instance, and there are no more extensions applied to built-in
> classes.
>   
AFAIK thats right. It's a design decision not to extend existing 
classes, as that can break code that iterates over properties of 
objects. But I'm not sure if this applies to String, too. Eg. extending 
String with a trim() method seems to make more sense then $.trim()...

-- Jörn

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