I don't mind your opinion at all, that's why I posted and asked for comments :-)
I don't remember exactly why I do so much concatenation, I was actually thinking about that last night :-) that's something I'm going to fix. To be honest with you, I never really gave any thought to non-JS users, when I first wrote the plugin I was in a bit of a rush, and should have thought about that, another thing to fix. :-) Now, to get up on my soap-box :-) : I agree, we do have lots of plugins that do basically the same thing, but they don't all fit every situation, or the documentation is a bit hard to follow. jdMenu and Superfish are two great examples, they are both great menu systems, but they both fit slightly different situations (from a design stand-point not an application one), in some situations, jdMenu is easier to style to get the look you're going for, in others Superfish is easier (at least for me). In addition, sometimes when we're looking for plugins, what we're looking for is categorized differently than we think it should be, we don't find what we're looking for so we write one that does what we want, submit it and find later that someone had already written a plugin to do what we were after in the first place. This has gotten a lot better with the new repository, but it still happens. (Maybe we should come up with a set of guidelines to help with categorization, this would benefit both plugin developers and those searching out plugins.) Besides the above reasons I believe there are two more, 1. Learning and Experimenting, 2. A desire to give back. When I first wrote SafeMail it was a combination of all of the above, and as I continue to develop it further it continues to be a learning and experimenting experience and a way for me to give back to the jQuery community. Thanks for your opinion and feedback, its one of the things that makes this community so great. On Apr 16, 6:06 pm, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mdrisser > > I checked the source, it does what it should. I don't understand why > do you do so much concatenation. > > For example: "<a " + "href" + "=" + "'mail" + "to" + ":" + .... > Can just be: '<a href="mailto:' + .... > > Note that this approach, will give no email to non-JS users, thus > degrading ungracefully. > I prefer the approach of parsing an existing foo[at]bar[dot]com into a > real email, so these users can still contact the person. > > As a sidenote (nothing personal to your specific plugin), I think we > have a LOT of plugins for this (same happens for other kind of > plugins). > IMO we should have some kind of moderation, in order to save some time > to those lurking the repository. > I know that everyone has the right to post their doings, and we > definitely don't want to frustrate members that contribute... > But there's a lot of posts here saying: "Which one of the X plugins to > do Y do you recommend?" > > Thanks mdrisser for contributing, and I hope you don't mind (too much) > my opinion. > > Cheers, keep up the good work. > > -- > Ariel Fleslerhttp://flesler.blogspot.com > > On 16 abr, 20:53, mdrisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I just released version 0.2 of my SafeMail plugin over at the jQuery > > plugin repository. SafeMail is another plugin that allows you to > > safely display email addresses in a web page so that spam bots can't > > read them. Arguments are now passed as an object and I added two > > additional options, the first allows you to add a custom class to the > > tag and the second allows you to wrap the email address in a div > > rather than a mailto link. > > >http://plugins.jquery.com/node/2277
