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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