Good evening y'all (Europe here ;)), been fiddling around in jQuery.UI this afternoon in order to write a widget. One problem I encountered and couldn't get properly solved was with referring to the instance of the widget from within a click event.
I've set up a demoscript over at http://www.bram.us/sandbox/jquery/ui/widget.html Just click the li's and watch your Firebug console ;) One path I've walked in order to get it work is to attach this (the instance of the widget) via $.data on each li. However, when working with a huge set, that seemed to hog my system, as Firefox would end up eating over 500MB of RAM. Anyone has any clue to this one? Looked at several sources of the UI core files (draggable, tabs, etc.) and I think they fall back on the .call() method. Whilst looking at the code however I couldn't find where exactly the magic happened in order for it to work. Regards, Bramus!
