I could do without namespaces if the build system provided warnings
for collisions instead of silently overwriting.
This way I could add third party and my own plugins without needing
to search the code by hand for conflicts.
I agree that keeping the verbs simple in the API and allowing
behavior to be polymorphic could do the trick for most cases.
ke han
On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Sam Collett wrote:
> On 16/10/06, Brian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think that there's a simpler answer to this.
>>
>> If we're going to overhaul the API that much, we need to do three
>> things.
>>
>> 1. Talk it out thoroughly, and make sure we get it "right" this time.
>> 2. Publish a new full release of jQuery (2.0).
>> 3. Put all of the "breaking changes" at the top of the README.
>>
>> Also, from a different branch of the discussion, I'm all for
>> namespacing.
>> But, in the case of jQuery, where terseness is one of it's greatest
>> assets, we should use very selective namespacing.
>>
>> e.g.
>> $.ajaxStop() -> $.ajax.stop()
>> $.serialize() -> $.form.serialize(), $.xml.serialize()
>> $.load() -> $.on.load(), $.ajax.load()
>> $.unload -> $.on.unload() {unload event}, $.un.load() {remove load
>> () event}
>> $.filter -> Don't change this. :)
>>
>> The idea is that we make the names VERY English-intuitive, and
>> resolve the
>> name collisions we have using as few characters as possible -
>> adding only
>> a dot to an already existing function, if possible/applicable.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
>
> Not too keen on namespacing (is it really required? will make the code
> more verbose and chaining could become confusing), but I agree that if
> the API changes that much it should be a 2.0 release rather than 1.x.
> Breaking changes should be the first thing people see before
> downloading (or maybe second after saying why it should be
> downloaded).
>
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