I think over all do a mootools like download / interface jquery lib 
download were the user can pick and choose components.

Just to be fair the only reason it has two was to make perl regex users 
happy :) I do use the perl regex though lol.


Jason Y
www.purepressure.com


dave.methvin wrote:
> John Resig wrote:
>   
>> Right now, the jQuery compressed build is teetering around 18-19KB, I
>> really want to try and cut this down. Any thoughts on particular
>> features that should be extracted into a plugin?
>>
>>     
> I know the macros don't account for _that_ much core code but they do
> complicate the documentation significantly. We have nice short names like
> .attr and .css yet those represent the most-macroed properties. Then we end
> up with (justifiable IMO) situations where valuable names like .height() are
> taken by the .css("height") macro to save five--count 'em--five characters.
> The same goes for the event macros, I think they account for more than half
> the names in the API documentation at this point and they end up creating
> situations like .unload() that are pretty hard to explain.
>
> I would like to see jQuery take more of a Perl path than a PHP one, using a
> small number of consistent and powerful concepts plus the ability to extend
> things with plugins. Perl has one simple consistent regexp operator; PHP has
> two completely different regexp engines, each served by a dozen or more
> differently named functions.
>
>
>   


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