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By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:35:29 +0000

Hi, really nice article,
I’ve just a question regarding JSLINT. It suggests this :

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Move the invocation into the parens that contain the function.
…..
….})(jQuery);
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and now we get this :

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….
….}(jQuery));
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do you see something dangerous with this transformation?

Thank you very much.

Vincent

By: Mr Speaker

Mr Speaker — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:57:14 +0000

Thanks for the great blog! Just one thing that I like to do with my plugins is provide an "unnamed" callback kind of like in the jQuery core. Then you have your plugin signature as $.fn.superGallery = function(options, callback) with the callback as the second parameter. When there are no options, you check to see if "options" are options or really the callback (this looks like how they do it in jQuery)

var defaults = { delay : 80 };
if ( jQuery.isFunction( options ) ) {
	callback = options;
	options = {};
}
var settings = $.extend({}, defaults, options);

Something like that. Then you can call the callback like before (but check if you have to): if ( callback ) callback.call(this); Then you can use the plugin without options: $('ul.imgs li').superGallery( function(){ /* callback */ } );

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wheresrhys » Blog Archive » My jQuery plugin writing tips — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:58:48 +0000

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By: DevSocialNetwork-UltimateWebNet

DevSocialNetwork-UltimateWebNet — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:06:10 +0000

Nice thanks for the post but how would i add this to the Watermark plugin

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By: maz

maz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:07:12 +0000

Nice post! But i do not like the “callback way” for serveral reasons.
- I have to install a callback for every instance of the plugin.
- There can be only one function set for callback.
- Calling a callback from a plugin with different ‘this’ contexts might be annoying. (What the heck, where is ‘this’ pointing to this time? And: With ‘this’ i have access to some element but how do i access the plugin.)
I think it is more fun, if plugins would fire custom events instead of calling callbacks. The custom events should hold all related data. And ‘this’ should always point to the plugin. With events i am able to register an event handler for the document and can handle multiple plugins with a single event listener.

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By: NYWebTeam

NYWebTeam — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:03:41 +0000

Awesome article, really helpful. It’s a must read for plugin developers.
Thank you.

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