isPlainObject?
Anyway, progress again on the transport front. Transport definition reduced
to 2 functions (the response headers are now passed to the complete callback
which is simpler and more elegant). Also, the new architecture didn't
prevent the infamous memory leak when using onreadystatechange under IE, so
I re-introduced the setInterval trick.
2009/12/3 John Resig <jere...@gmail.com>
> Well, we don't want "isObject" (or isJavaScriptObject or
> isNativeObject) since that'll allow things like 'new String'. We
> explicitly want the case where people are using {} or new Object in
> their code, adding on some properties, and passing it around. It sound
> like you're worried about some sort of semantic difference between
> isObjectLiteral and wasDefinedUsingAnObjectLiteral - but I don't think
> that really matters.
>
> --John
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael Geary <m...@mg.to> wrote:
> > "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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