The closures around plugins, when concatenated together (e.g. via
Rails 2.0) into one javascript file for production, can confuse the
javascript parser - despite the fact there is a new line. I propose
that there should be a semicolon at the first character to stop this.
I.e.
;(function($) {
rather than
(function($) {
I think it can confuse the closure as an argument of a function.
I've mentioned it before and there's been some good uptake of the idea
(e.g. http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/accordion/widget.js) ,
but the problem hit me again today whilst putting a site out to
production - so I thought I'd mention it again.
It will save lots of people lots of time :o)
Jonah
