> Hello, Marty McGee here. I was hoping to open a discussion about the > benefits of extending jQuery with your own custom functions versus > simply writing your functions in JavaScript and calling them without > extending jQuery first.
I am not a fan of extending the jQuery object with unrelated application-specific functionality. It avoids polluting the global namespace, but then again it pollutes the jQuery namespace. If jQuery later tries to claim that name for its own uses, you'll have a conflict.
