Comments on: jQuery 1.3.2 and beyond

By: heyyeah

heyyeah — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:45:20 +0000

@Jadet I guess each will differ about what should be core and plugin but the great thing about a requires is that makes handling plugins and script loading easier?

@Kof Thanks for writing XLazyLoader. I’m really looking forward to using this and happy it’s going into jQuery

By: Aimos

Aimos — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:38:47 +0000

Well the delegate plugin for jQuery also bubbles very well, but I was asking for the jQuery core one. :D

By: JustinMeyer

JustinMeyer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:36:15 +0000

@Aimos in JavaScriptMVC right now.

By: Kof

Kof — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:51:32 +0000

First of all, I am very glad that jQuery is interested in “lazy loading” of javascript/css. (I wrote the xLazyLoader ).

But I also think, that it doesn’t belong in the core of jQuery, but rather in the UI.
1. Keep the core small
2. The majority of users don’t need to “lazy load” the plugins

Some new features:
I would predefine the standard paths to the files for ui and effects, as well as interface for ui.progress.js.
There is also no posiibility to register the plugins, so that they can be later loaded, as they needed.
e.g.:
jQuery.register('pluginName', 'ui.plugin.js', 'ui.plugin.css')


or 
jQuery.require({

	files: 'ui.plugin.js', 'ui.plugin.css',

	name: pluginName,

	type: 'lazy'

});

I would donate and integrate this plugin to jQuery UI and maintain it in the future :)

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:26:46 +0000

What I’d like to see the most are special versions for iPhone and AIR. Especially for iPhone, it’s silly to have baggage for all the other browsers.

There are some new js libraries addressing the iPhone because of the current code bloat in JS libraries that is due to handling so many browsers, but I’d rather have a stripped jQuery.

By: m3tropolis

m3tropolis — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:57:35 +0000

Yes, keep the core library as small as possible! Speed is the critical thing here.

There is already a “require” plugin that works quite well.

Regardless, thank you, John, and the jQuery team for an excellent library.

By: Jadet

Jadet — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:06:28 +0000

Roadmap is looking good. Some of it gives me the impression jquery is growing into something more like Dojo. Not that that’s a bad thing but stuff like .require might be better fit for a plugin.

By: JohnResig

JohnResig — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:02:33 +0000

@Aimos: As mentioned in the release notes, that’s coming in 1.3.3.

By: Aimos

Aimos — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:34:14 +0000

I wonder when .live() will handle onSubmit bubbling.