I see what you mean now. Once I've completed a v1.0 of the
Intellisense, I'll happily strip out all the comments and provide the
'mock' JS file for anyone who wants it!

On Apr 23, 10:20 am, Sebastian Markbåge <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I meant was that we should maintain a single mock project like
> yours that can be used by several different IDEs. Maybe a common API
> format that can be used to generate -vsdoc files, JSDoc, ScriptDoc and
> other helper formats.
>
> Microsoft will probably continue to maintain the jQuery -vsdoc file
> with new versions, yea. But other frameworks will probably have to
> maintain their own.
>
> As far as I know you can't get new lines in the tooltips.
>
> On Apr 22, 11:40 pm, fakedarren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Glad you like it!
>
> > I agree, it would be really nice if we could structure something that
> > allows us to document everything all in one go - unfortunately with
> > this Intellisense it's not going to be possible until MS make a half-
> > decent JS parser - it can't even parse Core.js without breaking - so
> > unfortunately I had to go with a pseudo moo file, who's job it is to
> > just represent moo functionality, not replicate it.
>
> > It is going to be a hassle to support something like this
> > unfortunately, until someone at MS sorts out a decent JS parser - but
> > worth the effort.
>
> > I'm very intrigued about the much vaunted jQuery Intellisense that has
> > been mentioned - even their source file had to be edited because it
> > can't be parsed, hence the hotfix to allow -vsdoc files - this should
> > be something that is available to all JS frameworks - not just Moo or
> > jQuery, but also stuff like Dojo / Prototype et al - if it just works
> > for jQuery, then it's an unfair advantage against other frameworks
> > (particularly those that extend native objects - it can't hack clever
> > ways of extending prototypes, it only understands stuff like
> > Array.prototype.method() ).
>
> > Will they just continue to release hotfixes that just 'fix' jQuery
> > Intellisense? Or will they release hotfixes that mend their broken JS
> > parser? I reckon probably the first option.
>
> > I'm impressed by jQuery Intellisense - it's a great selling point. But
> > I don't want it to be exclusive because it's unfair. Anyway, will
> > persevere! Mooooooo!
>
> > PS. How do I get new lines in Intellisense tooltips? If you know
> > please share!
>
> > On Apr 22, 8:58 pm, Sebastian Markbåge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Excellent initiative! Was just talking about this in the IRC channel
> > > earlier today.
>
> > > I think that we need a more general project that maintains a
> > > structured API documentation and mock scripts like these for use with
> > > various IDE tools and documentation formats.
>
> > > Otherwise it's going to be a hassle to maintain in the future.
>
> > > On 22 Apr, 15:10, fakedarren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I've recently been working on Intellisense documentation for MooTools.
>
> > > > You can find it here:http://code.google.com/p/mootoolsintellisense/
>
> > > > This is not 100% finished yet, I need to finish adding in notes for
> > > > some of the latter classes like Fx, Request etc but most of the
> > > > methods should be listed, just no descriptions. Hope to get a full
> > > > version up over the next week or so.
>
> > > > Have a look at the wiki tab for more info / how to use. Any feedback
> > > > welcome, particularly if you can think of a good way to display all
> > > > the different options available when defining a new instance, or all
> > > > the available getters/setters....

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