I'm curious - which cases of 'document' are you having trouble with
(which methods are having problems)? I think we'd like to try our hand
at fixing those bugs first before we consider more 'drastic'
solutions.
--John
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, thenobot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greetings --
>
> I have only recently begun using jQuery, so apologies in advance if my
> question and proposal is way off base.
>
> I'm using jQuery-1.2.6 within a Firefox extension. For the most part
> it works as-is, though there are some methods that do not work because
> they use the "document" object.
>
> My extension gets a handle to the document in the browser, so I have
> been using code that looks like:
> $("#foo", docHandle).whatever...
>
> Which works fine, but there are still many non-functioning methods
> that do not have a context argument and are hardwired to use the
> "document" object.
>
> My solution was to create a class variable "root", whose default value
> is "document" (output from diffing with 1.2.6)...
>
> 26a27,29
>> // root element
>> root = document,
>>
>
> ... then to add a method to change the value of "root"...
>
> 606a611,615
>> // change the root element (default is 'document')
>> setroot: function( elem ) {
>> root = elem;
>> },
>>
>
> ... then to replace any instances of "document" in the jQuery source
> with "root".
> (approximately 40 occurences)
>
> Once I get my document handle in my extension code, I call...
> jQuery.setroot(docHandle);
>
> ... and all is good.
>
> This allows me to reset what "document" means to jQuery. I can
> imagine this could also allow a developer to set a global context for
> other operations to restrict to certain parts of a webpage when jQuery
> is used in the traditional sense.
>
> Anyhow, I just wanted to get feedback from more experienced folks here
> in case there's something glaring that I missed ... or in the slim
> chance that this is actually a good idea, I can provide a full patch.
>
> Regards,
> -zs
>
> >
>
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