I definitely agree. I'm going to propose this course of action:
1) Strip out all "helper" functions into an external plugin.
2) Change the official (in SVN) plugins to no longer use the helpers.
3) Change all docs to no longer use the helpers.
This will clear up documentation and reduce the filesize (win-win!)
I'm going to persue this avenue long before having mutlitple builds
(which only tends to complicate the matter).
--John
On 11/14/06, Blair McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been thinking the same thing actually. The messiness of three functions
> for every event (bind, unbind, and trigger) outweighs the convenience. I
> think that all these macros should be spun out into a plugin so that they
> can still be included for backwards compatibility when necessary.
>
> Blair
>
>
> On 11/15/06, dave.methvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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