I heard about the jQuery require that is shown as part of this changeset: http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/998cb005fc378188b3bae319e391d1b7881b7ad2
I work on Dojo's module loader, and have a new standalone (no other library dependency) script loader here: http://code.google.com/p/runjs/wiki/RunJs The goal is to keep RunJS compatible with the goals of CommonJS (avoiding globals mainly) but still allow for a module syntax that works well natively in the browser. It does not use XHR calls, just script tags. Works before page load and after page load. It also handles loading regular scripts that are not coded as modules: run(["some/script.js", "another/script.js"], function() { //This callback is fired when both scripts load }); For scripts that do follow the module syntax and have dependencies, it properly traces the module dependencies and calls the module definition functions in the correct order. It would be ideal if more of the JS libraries started to standardize on a script loader. I am happy to work out changes to RunJS if jQuery might find it useful to use. For instance, the entry point does not have to be called run(), I am considering switching to script() since it handles general script loading and callbacks when scripts are loaded. It also might be good to pull out a script loader from the core jQuery library, if only to keep the separation of concerns easier to track. RunJS has plugins for i18n string bundle loading, and also can load text files (like HTML snippets) via async xhr, then inline those text files as part of a build process. But I may be misunderstanding the scope of jQuery's require. In any case, I just wanted to see if there was some common interest and if we might be able to coordinate our efforts. Thanks for your time, James Burke -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@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.
