On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Richard W. And thanks to everyone who has commented. > I am glad that most of the issues raised have been purely > philosophical. :) > > Jose, please use whatever plugin you feel is best suited for you > needs. > The whole purpose of a plugin is you don't need to worry about what's > inside. > If you have a conviction that you want to use jQuery UI somewhere, > please do.
Both good points. > > I've seen that jQuery UI-based cropping demo and frankly it's broken. > I don't think that's jQuery UI's fault, but it does not make a very > compelling demo. > Nor does the demo include documentation, downloads, or anything else I > can see. Agreed. Though I didn't author that demo, I've been meaning to fix it up for some time. Seeing what you've done has re-inspired me. > > Surely jQuery UI could have been used, but I was not/am not familiar > enough with it. > Therefore, I cannot comment if it would actually benefit more than my > coding time. > I also wanted to minimize the codebase and dependencies. > > I do plan to experiment with the UI libraries. If they prove > beneficial, a future release may use it. > Or, I may incorporate some of UI's optimizations in my own code, if > applicable. Either way, :-) > > As with the naming (e.g. Jcrop vs. jCrop), these are issues I > considered a lot. > It's very possible that I made some wrong choices. > > This is the first time I've ever seen lack of a dependency as a > detriment to someone. If someone is already using jQuery UI it's a bit reversed, as the duplication/dependence on additional code would be coming from your plugin, not the other way around. Of course it goes further than just code size. Not to say there's no place for Jcrop. There will always be a place for stand-alone plugins. But jQuery UI could really benefit from having available such a stellar image crop plugin as well. I'll take a crack at merging some bits of what you've done with what jQuery UI has. We'll see where it lands us. As I said, I'd been meaning to do something like this anyway, and you've done a lot of really great and hard work. So, thanks :) - Richard
