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
>
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