Thanks Scott for a reply. Is there any other place where I can talk to the
jQuery team and hopefully persuade them to write this wonderful library in
that "regular" way? Writing the code that way is not only good for code
completion/suggestion but also good for syntax checking (esp. with a tool
like Idea).
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Scott Sauyet <scott.sau...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2:55 pm, Thai Dang Vu <tdan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using IntelliJ Idea 9.0 which supports code completion/suggestion for
> > javascript. It doesn't work with the innerHeight/Width because of this
> >
> > jQuery.fn["inner" + name] = function(){ // [ ... ]
> >
> > Is there anyway to implement the innerHeight and innerWidth in a regular
> > way?
>
> Of course it could be done in the "regular" way. But this is a means
> to keep the download size of the library small. There are numerous
> places in the codebase where similar tricks are employed. One
> consistent goal of the jQuery team has been to keep the library as
> lean as possible, and such tricks help, with practically no
> performance cost.
>
> I believe it would take a great deal of persuasion to convince the
> team that supporting code completion in this way is worth the
> additional weight of the download, but feel free to try... :-)
>
> -- Scott
>
