Ryan, that's a great idea. Although I don't anticipate using it often, I can easily see how this would be indispensable in some circumstances.
On Jul 17, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Ryan Gahl wrote: > If this does make it to core, I would then also suggest allowing > the developer to specify the prefix of the ID (default to > "uniqueId"). Optionally, go so far as to track a separate > incremented value per new prefix, allowing the dev to essentially > set up element groups. This would be considered like namespacing > the ids. > > So you just need one more small step to store a hash of prefixes > and their corresponding current _nextUniqueId values. > > On 7/14/07, Sam Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 14, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Tobie Langel wrote: > > > I'm failing to see what advantage it has over directly storing a > > reference to the element like so: > > > > this.myElement = $(e); > > ... > > var e = this.myElement; > > I'm using a similar technique in a couple of applications where I > needed to cache references to parent nodes of certain elements. In > order to avoid circular references, the parent nodes' IDs are stored > in custom attributes and dereferenced with $(). > > It's not always convenient to give those nodes IDs in HTML, so I > settled an Element#denominate method that assigns IDs if they don't > exist using a string prefix + new Date().getTime(). (I do like Jeff's > suggestion of using an auto-incrementing value instead of a > timestamp.) > > It's a good fit for core, IMO. > > -sam > > > > > > > > -- > Ryan Gahl > Manager, Senior Software Engineer > Nth Penguin, LLC > http://www.nthpenguin.com > -- > Architect > WebWidgetry.com / MashupStudio.com > Future Home of the World's First Complete Web Platform > -- > Inquire: 1-262-951-6727 > Blog: http://www.someElement.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
