Hi Fran <shameless-self-promotion>
You could go for completely independent PubSub implementatations as well, I wrote one: https://github.com/mroderick/PubSubJS http://roderick.dk/blog/2010/10/12/introducing-pubsubjs-a-library-for-doing-publish-subscribe-in-javascript/ http://jsperf.com/pubsubjs-vs-jquery-custom-events </shameless-self-promotion> /Morgan On Feb 3, 4:47 pm, Fran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joel, > > I didn't thought about the first point, thanks for that. About the > second one, I thought about it but found that I could get intro trouble > with certain versions of jQuery if I tried to unbind events since jQuery > seems to try to call "detachEvent" or "removeEventListener" (depending > on the browser) assuming always the object is a DOM element and that's > the reason I wanted to use $(document) or $('body') > > I'm not really interested in bouncing events off the dom as you say, so > I'll probably go for something like this jquery plugin someone suggested > in the list:https://gist.github.com/661855 > > Thanks. > > On 03/02/11 15:35, Joel Dart wrote: > > > > > 1. Body will bubble up through HTML to document. document doesn't have any > > place to bubble. > > 2. You don't have to use the dom when doing jQuery custom events. > > $(document).trigger works the same way as $(myNS).trigger where myNS is > > your global namespaced object > > > This probably makes more sense to your app than bouncing events off the dom > > anyway. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Fran > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:07 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [JSMentors] $('body') vs $(document) in Pub/Sub pattern > > > Because I'd also like to use namespaced events and I think jQuery has this > > cleverly implemented > > > On 03/02/11 15:00, Peter Higgins wrote: > >> On 2/3/11 9:12 AM, Poetro wrote: > >>> 2011/2/3 Fran<[email protected]>: > >>>> I like this really tiny but clever plugin. I'll definitely keep it > >>>> in mine, but still I have the question whether using $(document) or > >>>> $('body') makes any different. Any idea ? > >>> There is one small difference. The $(document) selector is a bit > >>> faster. I dont think that there would be other difference. > > >> right and then the question is: why would you even be running a dom > >> selector/instantiating a jq obj for something that has > >> little-to-nothing to do with the DOM. The point of pubsub is that it's > >> _not_ coupled to anything. > > >> ~phiggins > > > -- > > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit > > here:http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
