I'd like to get opinions from the community here on the inclusion of a javascript library in shindig (my proposal: jQuery) in order to simplify and clean up some of the utility in the js codebase. This largely pertains to the CommonContainer code.
I think it could go a long way to simplify some of the implementation I've seen. There are ways to include a library like jQuery without interfering with other js libraries. We load it and alter the shortcut namespace so it will not interfere with other frameworks a consumer might be using (such as prototype). We can even provide the ability to customize the shortcut so that consumers may make use of the library already loaded on the page, or, change it to use a CDN like google's. Any thoughts?
