Right, I think this is what Matt and I are getting at. Also, I think
it shouldn't be impossible to track jQuery changes. The internals
might change, but if we're mostly error checking published API, that
should be fairly stable.
-- dz
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrea Giammarchi
<andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> rather than another branch with dirty code in the middle, I would prefer a
> dedicated jQuery.debug.js as external file able to wrap "everything" and
> redefine the library itself.
>
> in this way you can use always latest jQuery version and add, locally, a
> script with jQuery.debug.js file where inside you'll find something like:
>
> jQuery = $ = (function($){
> function jQuery(){
> if(this instanceof jQuery)
> throw new Error("it does not make sense to use new $");
> return $.apply(null, arguments);
> };
> jQuery.prototype = $.prototype;
> return jQuery;
> })($);
>
> the same could be done for methods, in prototype or static.
>
> This is worthy if what you need to check are arguments, scopes, other rather
> than core code itself ( at least that should be jQuery problem, I mean
> errors check )
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Matt Kruse <m...@thekrusefamily.com> wrote:
>>
>> On May 19, 7:51 am, David Zhou <da...@nodnod.net> wrote:
>> > I wonder if it's feasible to monkeypatch debugging wrappers around
>> > jQuery core methods. You don't even need it to throw errors -- a
>> > simple console.log warning would suffice.
>>
>> Definitely feasible. See something I posted here a while ago:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/5360f7b3d67a2ddc
>>
>> The problem is that jQuery changes fairly frequently (unfortunately)
>> and the debug plugin would need to constantly be changed to stay up-to-
>> date since it would be so closely tied to the jQuery code.
>>
>> It would be better to put the debugging into the source itself, then
>> use a builder to create a debug version and a release version.
>>
>> In the absence of that, though, it would be fantastic to have a group
>> of people working on a debug plugin.
>>
>> Matt Kruse
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>
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