"isObjectLiteral" is a really poor name for that function. It makes no sense
at all. An object *literal* is text. It's not an object until it's parsed,
and then it's not an object literal any more, it's just an Object.
Case in point: jQuery.isObjectLiteral({}) and jQuery.isObjectLiteral(new
Object) both return true. I don't think there is any way to distinguish
between a '{}' and a 'new Object', is there?
This function definitely needs to be renamed. What does it actually do? Is
its purpose to distinguish between a JavaScript object and a DOM object?
Then it could be called isJavaScriptObject or isNativeObject or some such.
Not isObjectLiteral please.
Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves - the Google Maps API documentation
describes many of its option objects as "object literals", which is quite
misleading and confusing. (Maps newbies sometimes think they *have* to use
an object literal and can't use an object that they build on the fly.)
-Mike
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:36 PM, John Resig <jere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yep, like I said earlier
> > jQuery.isObjectLiteral(document.createElement("div")) returns true in IE8
> > (dunno for earlier versions) but John seems to be working on it. Can't
> > believe how difficult to get right these type controlling codes can be.
> > Seems like magic to me sometimes.
>
> I actually landed the fix for it earlier today. We should be all good now.
>
> --John
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