Maybe I should start writing a dependency loading system... LOL

On Dec 22, 9:42 am, aHeckman <aaron.heckm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Julian, dominoes is very nice. I like your flexible syntax for
> ordering dependencies and how you allow your configuration of named
> resources.
>
> I too just finished a loader for jQuery but it has different goals in
> mind. Namely, I wanted a loader that would do more than just
> javascript. Many jQuery plugins and jQuery-ui components have css
> stylesheet and image dependencies as well so I felt a good loader
> should handle these too. It's still early but so far it's been useful.
> You can check it out here:http://github.com/aheckmann/jQuery.use
>
> My vision is that we come together as a community and organize all of
> the jQuery components / plugins under one umbrella, and be able to
> dynamically serve all of them from a managed repo / CDN - 
> thinkhttp://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?for the entire jQuery community.
> jQuery.use is configurable to use a file concat service like YUIs
> combo service.
>
> jQuery.use('jquery-ui-tabs', function ($) {
>    $('.tabs').tabs();
>
> });
>
> On Dec 21, 9:23 pm, Julian Aubourg <aubourg.jul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > OK, so I finally got time to write some docs & unit tests for my own baby...
> > and here comes Dominoes:http://code.google.com/p/javascript-dominoes/
>
> > See the Wiki pages to get an idea of what it is capable of (quite the wall
> > of text there but heh).
>
> > It is more of a general purpose "scheduler" and provides some nice features
> > like property expansion, global dependency rules, etc, etc. It is browser
> > agnostic in the spirit of sizzle.
>
> > Only 4kB minified but the google compiler breaks the code (I didn't have
> > time to investigate why).
>
> > 2009/12/21 John Resig <jere...@gmail.com>
>
> > > Hi James -
>
> > > There's definitely room for collaboration here. As I mentioned in the
> > > comments on the commit I'm planning on holding off on jQuery.require()
> > > until post-1.4 so that we can really get it right and hopefully
> > > standardize a bit. I'll ping you again after the 1.4 dust has settled
> > > and we can discuss it some more.
>
> > > --John
>
> > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, James Burke <jrbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I heard about the jQuery require that is shown as part of this
> > > > changeset:
>
> > >http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/998cb005fc378188b3bae319e391d1...
>
> > > > 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
>
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