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By: Dakota

Dakota — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:33:35 +0000

Thanks. This is likely the most comprehensive jQuery plugin guide around, and is helping to define best practices. This is really helpful for beginning/intermediate jQuery users, esp. those without a firm grasp on the inner workings of the beast. Thanks again.

By: Alexander Trefz

Alexander Trefz — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:52:41 +0000

i think its better to use
$.extend(true, {}, $.fn.hilight.defaults, options);
instead of
$.extend({}, $.fn.hilight.defaults, options);

cause defaults like
{ first: { option: 1, option: 2}, second: {option:1, option: 2}
wont be written by the extend() Method, except you pass all options in the invoke method.

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Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:50:35 +0000

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By: Bankacı

Bankacı — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:44:08 +0000

Great tut ! Thanks

By: Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:54:04 +0000

Great, well structured article, many thoughtful responses. Thanks everybody.

The article is especially good for one reason: It introduces Douglas Crockford’s rather old Module design pattern to the huge jQuery community.
There’s a slight hope that the pattern described will lead the one who adopts it to be a better JavaScript programmer.
There are many responses to the article from which you can tell that the guys who left them don’t know the JavaScript language, such as:
- suggestions about cluttering the jQuery object for convenience instead of proper encapsulation
- questions about member scope & access, about instance & static members
- questions about problems caused by implied globals (missing variable declaration).

A proposal TWIMC: If you want to write a plugin for jQuery, consider LEARNING THE JAVASCRIPT LANGUAGE. Don’t repeat the mistake of many others (me included) and try just to “figure out” how JavaScript works. Give it the respect it deserves as a full featured programming language. You wouldn’t try to “figure out” C++, right?

First grade resources are in my view:
Douglas Crockford’s http://javascript.crockford.com/
and his videos on http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ (recommended: The JavaScript Programming Language & Advanced JavaScript).

Else Chuck Norris will come a-roundhouse kick you ;)

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15 Most Interesting jQuery Tutorials « Nulls — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:24:01 +0000

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