I dunno, I'm one of these people starting to really see the benefits of keeping as much out the core as possible, as jQuery's plugin architecture doesn't add any overhead, although I'm starting to link along the lines of jQuery.core.js and jQuery.utilities.js, where functions like this come as part of a core package, but are not required by the core.
On 30/10/2007, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that something like this is a good candidate for the core. There's > so many requests and things for "how can I pause my code", etc. > > I can't see this being all that large in size. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tane Piper > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:32 PM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] [INTERESTING PLUGIN] Wait plugin > > > I came across an interesting plugin today on my travels around the web: > > http://blog.jcoglan.com/2007/10/30/asynchronous-function-chaining-in-javascr > ipt > > It's interesting, because it's a setTimeout plugin but is coded so it can be > chained along my event queue. For example, in my code before I > had: > > $(self).animate({top: -90, opacity: 0.9}, 2000); > setTimeout(function() { > $(self).animate({ top: -150, opacity: 0 }, 1000); }, > 5000); > > But using this plugin, I can now do: > > $(self).animate({top: -90, opacity: 0.9}, 2000).wait(5).then.animate({ > top: -150, opacity: 0 }, 1000); > > To me, this makes a lot of sense, and also looks more jQuery-like. > Kudos for the developer for making this one. > > -- > Tane Piper > Blog - http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk > AJAX Pastebin - http://pastemonkey.org > > This email is: [ ] blogable [ x ] ask first [ ] private > > > -- Tane Piper Blog - http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk AJAX Pastebin - http://pastemonkey.org This email is: [ ] blogable [ x ] ask first [ ] private
