Okay ... I've created a jQuery.fn.behavior() and
jQuery.fn.unbehavior(). I haven't checked anything in yet but I have
uploaded it to here:
http://brandon.jquery.com/plugins/behavior/test/test.html
I also added a pretty rough $.behavior.find() so that unbehavior will work.
The only extension I needed to make to the core was exposing the
selector and context for the jQuery object.
Index: src/jquery/jquery.js
===================================================================
--- src/jquery/jquery.js (revision 1827)
+++ src/jquery/jquery.js (working copy)
@@ -43,8 +43,12 @@
a = jQuery.clean( [ m[1] ] );
// HANDLE: $(expr)
- else
- return new jQuery( c ).find( a );
+ else {
+ var r = new jQuery( c ).find( a );
+ r.selector = a;
+ r.context = c;
+ return r;
+ }
}
return this.setArray(
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Brandon Aaron
On 4/30/07, Brandon Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah I have an idea... I'm going to go see if it works. :)
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Brandon Aaron
On 4/30/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Excellent Brandon, this is a great start. I suspect that in order to
> get a full "behavior" plugin (one the feels natural) it'll require a
> lot of code extensions. Hmm... I wonder if there's anything that can
> be added to jQuery proper to ease the process.
>
> --John
>
> On 4/28/07, Brandon Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I had some down time this afternoon so I thought I would throw
> > something together real quick. I just checked it in:
> > http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/plugins/behavior
> >
> > This allows you to register any number of behaviors that will run any
> > jQuery method/plugin with any number of arguments. It also allows a
> > plugin developer to register their method so that behavior will auto
> > run when it is done. It also allows the developer to manually
> > run/remove a specific behavior or all behaviors.
> >
> > It seems to be pretty flexible but with behavior auto running after a
> > DOM update, I could see it getting pretty out of hand with performance
> > if lots of behaviors are used.
> >
> >
> > Here is the test/example page that adds three behaviors; an append,
> > click and addClass. I also remove the addClass behavior before doing
> > the last two appendTo and prependTo calls.
> >
> > http://brandon.jquery.com/plugins/behavior/test/test.html
> >
> > --
> > Brandon Aaron
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/26/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > .behavior() does not exist - but it could (without too much effort)
> > > the current solution with jQuery is shown in the previous slide (which
> > > is, unfortunately, rather verbose). I hope that it'll exist one day -
> > > I probably should've made that more explicit.
> > >
> > > You would, "simply", have to override append/prepend/before/after and
> > > after the injection has occurred, re-run all "behavior"ed expressions.
> > > Of course, you'd also have to cache all expressions for future use
> > > (and that's another nut, entirely). If someone feels compelled, you
> > > can hack on it - otherwise, I may take a stab at it.
> > >
> > > --John
> > >
> > > On 4/26/07, Starbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was just watching the video of John Resig at Yahoo, and in one slide
> > > > he talked about behaviors, as jquery bindings that act like css rules
> > > > and apply themselves to html fragments asynchronously loaded into the
> > > > page. The code sample looked like this:
> > > >
> > > > $(document).ready( function() {
> > > > $('li").behavior( "click", function() {
> > > > $(this).load("menu.html");
> > > > });
> > > > });
> > > >
> > > > Is behavior a special jQuery function, something that is in the works,
> > > > or is it just a regular function and the code for it was missing from
> > > > the slide set?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
