Well, that is one conclusion you could reach. The other is that perhaps jQuery needs a couple of components extracted and turned into external libraries that it then depends on (ajax, etc). A bit blasphemous, I know, considering jQuery is supposed to be easy to download as a standalone, but there's no reason the libraries + jQuery couldn't be stitched together into a 'standalone' package for download on the jQ server. This would also open up the well-vetted sub-systems of the jQ universe to other developers without requiring all of jQuery. For example, Christof's scriptloader could use jQ's ajax code, or could merge with it. The mandate of the ajax library would certainly include the sorts of things that he and JSAN have in mind.
-Stephen Jörn Zaefferer wrote: > Stephen Howard wrote: > >> jQuery remains coherent and quantifiable, rather than an ever expanding >> kitchen sink, >> and we get peer libraries that the community knows will play well with >> the beloved jQ. Remember the old Unix saw about doing one thing and >> doing it well (aside from Emacs, of course). I think it ought to >> pertain here as well. >> >> > You make a good point. Its similar to the idea of integrating a class > creating facility in jQuery that came up a few days ago. Should this be > seperated from jQuery as it has nothing to do with DOM manipulation? I'm > not so sure, because most aspects of the class creation facility are > already available in the jQuery code. This is also true for OnDemand-JS, > as all the AJAX stuff is already covered. I'd like to see jQuery > concentrate on its strength, but on the other hand, I don't like > duplicating code. > > jQuery itself claims to change the way you write javascript. With > helpers like $.each, $.map and $.trim it does just this, without > touching DOM, FX or AJAX at all. > > I therefore vote to integrate an On-Demand Javascript facility into jQuery. > > -- Jörn > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
