Great to hear it, Mike. If this is going off list, feel free to be in contact via email.
-Trey On Mar 5, 3:52 pm, Mike Hostetler <[email protected]> wrote: > Trey- > > Just found this thread right before shutting down for the night. I wanted > to respond and let you know that I'm *very* interested in talking with you > more about this. Most of the effort on this topic has been taken off list, > which is why there hasn't been much activity. > > Starring this to respond later, thanks. > > Mike Hostetlerhttp://amountaintop.com > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 20:09, tres <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback, Daniel. > > > I see what you mean about jQuery.options instead of jQuery.fn.options. > > My reasoning for this, though, is by putting it on .fn you can assign > > different options to different elements instead of setting it globally > > for the plugin. This way options are persistent and can be changed on > > the fly. > > > I did think about giving the ability to assign a plugin to jQuery and > > not just jQuery.fn, but couldn't find a very graceful way to implement > > it as I just wanted to get the .fn working first. Could add a third, > > boolean, argument called addToFn and default it to true since it is > > the most likely case. > > > "Magic" methods can also be supported. Say you want to execute a > > function when the object is constructed, or when the options are > > changed. This isn't currently documented, but '__construct' works,and > > others would be fairly easy to implement. > > > Another idea would be to have an argument in jQuery.addPlugin to pass > > in an object of default options which would automatically apply > > options to the passed objects using jQuery.fn.options. > > > That said, I'm trying to keep a good balance of simplicity and > > extensibility, so more features isn't necessarily the right answer. > > > Anybody have anymore ideas or want to collaborate? > > > Thanks, > > -Trey > > > On Mar 5, 1:34 pm, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think it could do with the ability to handle methods on jQuery itself > > > instead of being limited to just jQuery.fn, perhaps a second > > > object/function to addPlugin; > > > > Likewise I'd prefer jQuery.options over jQuery.fn.options; > > > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com] > > > -Nadir-Point & Wiki-Tools (http://nadir-point.com) ( > >http://wiki-tools.com) > > > -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.org) > > > -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) > > > -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) > > > -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com) > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > There has been a lot of activity about plugin authoring and how it can > > > > be more structured and extensible. I've posted a couple of comments on > > > > some threads and sent an email to John, but I thought I'd create a new > > > > thread since I haven't had any feedback yet. John, I understand you > > > > probably get a lot of email and are very busy. > > > > > I've written a plugin that I'd like to get feedback on from you guys. > > > > It's still evolving, but should be stable in what it currently is > > > > designed to do and I have found it invaluable when authoring larger, > > > > more advanced plugins. It would be nice to see similar functionality > > > > built into jQuery as I think others would also find it useful. > > > > > Link:http://plugins.jquery.com/project/plugin-authoring > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Trey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
