Meant to also say that jQuery.namespace is a stripped down version of jQuery.plugin. jQuery.plugin keeps track of which plugins were added statically, which ones were added through jQuery's prototype as well as methods for setting configuration, removing plugins, checking for plugin existence and chaining jQuery back in.
On Aug 6, 3:00 pm, tres <treshug...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote that one ;) > > On Aug 6, 2:58 pm, Daniel Friesen <nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There was another discussion on the mailing list about a plugin > > authoring plugin. It actually allowed plugins that did things like > > $(...).plugin().myPluginFunction().myOtherPluginFunctionWhichReturnsJQ().fi > > nd(...); > > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > > tres wrote: > > > I think if plugin developers were to start utilizing a prototypal > > > inheritance, it would make the most sense to put it into the core. > > > This doesn't mean the current way of extending jQuery needs to change, > > > this just adds to it and makes an api much easier to write, understand > > > and use. As a plugin developer who has written many plugins (not > > > necessarily released) I have found it very, very frustrating to write > > > a plugin with more than 1 function in jQuery. I don't want to pass > > > 'this' as a parameter, nor do I want to use the .dialog('open') > > > method. The former isn't the jQuery way and the latter just seems > > > dirty. > > > > On Aug 6, 1:14 pm, aHeckman <aaron.heckm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I too believe prototypal inheritance should be left out. > > > >> But, in general, I'd love to see a change like this in jquery.ui ... > > > >> On Aug 5, 10:36 pm, tres <treshug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> // would now allow > > >>> $('div').dialog().open(); > > > >>> // instead of > > >>> $('div').dialog('open'); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
