Hi Klaus I am not going to blame jQuery or some other javascript libs. They are all great! I just doubt whether providing shortcuts is good idea to an opensource project or not. In my experiences, using package is much better than the shortcuts.
/Jack On Sep 4, 7:44 pm, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jack.tang wrote: > > Hi John > > > $ shortcut is convenient and it also make the namespace pollution so > > easy. > > > Here is my reply to Rey > > > jQuery.noConflict(); > > > // Put all your code in your document ready area > > jQuery(document).ready(function($){ > > // Do jQuery stuff using $ ->[ time 1 ] > > $("div").hide(); > > }); > > > // Use Prototype with $(...), etc. > > $('someid').style.display = 'none'; -> [time 2] > > > // -> [ time 3 ] > > > @Rey: Conflicts still exist. Here is the case: > > > 1. 1. event "call_me_later_function" is attached to some element at > > [time 1], the whole thing may look like: > > > var call_me_later_function = function(e){$("a.clickme").href > > = ...} > > $("div#call_me_later").bind("mouseon", > > call_me_later_function) > > > NOTE: I put $ in the later-fire-event. > > 2. 2. at [time 3], whole page loads completely. > > 3. 3. then, event "call_me_later_function" is triggered, but you > > see, $ has been changed > > > Bind-early-and-execute-later is nightmare of these $s. > > What is the problem with avoiding to use $ in the first place? jQuery > allows that very easily and goes great length to allow that. > > I think the bashing here is not justified. > > --Klaus