Now that I ran into the issue again I'm going to revive a bit of an old thread of mine.
Extensibility: Extending init selectors to support application objects http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/c0743849212a360a/f797c0d2f54dd9cc The gist of the thread is talking about a feature letting you extend jQuery to handle custom objects properly. ie: If you have a Widget system in your app, you could extend jQuery so that $(widgetObject) and $(this).append(widgetObject); are smart enough to know how to handle the widget object (ie: Grabbing the proper dom note for the widget). Originally the discussion stopped because someone noted that you could override jQuery.fn.init with a proxy method to achieve this ability. I was doing some work today on our the version of the app the company I work for is building, and after spending some time tracking down a bug I ended up finding that it was caused by the fact that overriding .init actually doesn't handle this feature properly. .append(obj); goes directly into domManip and never makes it's way to init, so as a result this feature does not work. At the moment I'm working around this by hacking jQuery.clean with an extra, ugly proxy method. But either something has changed in jQuery since that time then, or this never worked from the start. This considered, I think this feature in one of three forms would be good: - Things which go directly to domManip make their way to init at some point so overriding it will work. - Making jQuery understand a callback name which it can look for in custom objects. ie: Add jQuerySelectCallback or whatever to your Widget's prototype and jQuery will use that to select the node. - The proposed feature of having a callback list jQuery understands which is used in init, and wherever else necessary to allow for this feature to work. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=.
