Dan G. Switzer, II schrieb:
Guys,
It occurred to me last night with the growing list of plug-ins and the fact
that so many plug-ins now are dependant on other plug-ins, that we should
try to add a couple of functions to the jQuery core for registering plug-ins
and detecting if a plug-in has been registered.
I like the idea Dan!
So, to register a plug-in, you'd add something like this to a plug-in:
$.plugin.register("autocomplete");
And then when writing a plug-in that's dependent on some other plug-in, you
could check for loaded plug-ins:
$.plugin.find(["dimension","blockui","below"]);
I'm just thinking that maybe the core library needs something to help
plug-in authors to manage the dependencies of their plug-ins--in order to
help developers using their plug-ins.
If we at least added a few core methods for tracking, we could expand the
architecture later if need be.
Does this make sense to anyone else?
Yes! How about this:
// Implementation:
$.require = function(names) {
$.each(names.split(","), function(i, n) {
if( !$.fn[n] || $[n] )
throw "required plugin " + n + " not found";
});
}
// Usage:
$.require("autocomplete,dimensions");
Of course this doesn't work with dimensions as it is. But the easiest
approach would be to add this line to the dimensions plugin:
$.dimensions = {};
I don't see any need for explicit registration methods.
--
Jörn Zaefferer
http://bassistance.de
