Matt, >Is there any reason why it's not done this way? Perhaps there are >things I'm not thinking of :)
You can access the functions using $.trim(), etc. While I had no part in planning, I suspect the decision to place all this code w/in the jQuery object was to avoid having the jQuery code interfere w/other libraries or existing code base. For example, if jQuery were to define their trim() method as a prototype to the String object, then it would/could override a pre-defined version of the function. If the two functions did not behave *exactly* a like, now you have some issue that's very hard to debug and track down. -Dan
