Best jQuery Code Reviews?

[Garrett Smith]

Is there a good list of code reviews for jQuery? To be suitable for the
compendium, they should be simple, purely technical (unbiased), focused,
relevant, and to-the-point.

While there are numerous known problems regarding jQuery attr and
removeAttr, they're loosely scattered.

So, what's you're best jQuery thread?

Garrett

 

[Ry Nohryb]

So, what's you're best jQuery thread?

s/you're/your/

 

[Luuk]

Op 4-6-2010 23:18, Ry Nohryb schreef:

s/you're/your/

up until now,
this one?

 

[Garrett Smith]

Op 4-6-2010 23:18, Ry Nohryb schreef:

The problem indicated in the correction is that the OP (that's me) used
"you're" which is a contraction for "you are", instead of possessive
"your", meaning "related to you". The sentence reads as "So, what's you
are best jQuery thread?"

I have such tendencies, including their/they're and the posting of
gibberish, which happens when I'm tired (as I am now).

I am doing a little research and wanted a compendium of jQUery reviews.
I probably should have been using the "tag" functionality in TB for this
all along, though that would have required the reader (me) to do the
tagging, as well as keeping a very long list of messages.

Would be nice if tags could be set on a news message header and as a
bonus, if an archive existed with a "search tags" feature.

Garrett

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Would be nice if tags could be set on a news message header and as a
bonus, if an archive existed with a "search tags" feature.

In your Thunderbird's user.js, e.g.:

user_pref("mail.compose.other.header", "X-Tag");

The value must be a comma-separated list of header names that can them be
chosen in the Compose dialog. Thunderbird 3.0.x also appears to be capable
of defining a filter/search on such an additional header, but you might need
to go into Offline Mode (and download the messages) before it can take
effect.


PointedEars

 

[Frobernik]

Slightly off topic. Here's an interesting quote from a respected
scientific web site ;-)

"...a hobby which demands a large investment of time and money, and you
get a fanboy. They defend their favourite stuff and ridicule the
competition, ignoring facts if they contradict their emotional connection."

<url:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/06/fanboyism-and-brand-loyalty/#more-400337

Andrew Poulos

I talked to someone about their favourite JS library the other evening
over a beer. I asked why he used it & he then explained it was "small"
and "did what it needs to"

After suggesting an alternative library (& him slating said library for
not doing the "same things" as his favourite library) he then said "it
wasn't a large library"

I'm finding that most 'Javascript framework' contributers, l33ters,
loudmouths/advocates & fanboys seem to be full of contradictions,
poison, hot air, etc. I didn't even bother mentioning facility
detection, reflection, unit testing, etc

jQuery - best of a bad bunch really. Its full of hacks, browser detects,
copy and pasting, etc. Stuff that most sane people were trying to remove
from their sites some 6 years ago as it was considered brittle then & is
even brittler now

If your thinking about using it instead read a FAQ or book(s) about
Javascript, write your own library & don't bother with jQuery, Dojo, etc
(the usual suspects)

Fro

 

[Paul Irish]

If your thinking about using it instead read a FAQ or book(s) ...

s/your/you're

 

[Garrett Smith]

s/your/you're

You're a few days late.

What's with the fiddling of the subject header?

If you are capable of contributing something useful, please do.

Garrett

 

[Bwig Zomberi]

Would be nice if tags could be set on a news message header and as a
bonus, if an archive existed with a "search tags" feature.

I use Seamonkey Mail & Newsgroups, based Thunderbird 2. I can
right-click on a message and select Tag -> some tag.

There is also a View list where I can filter by tags.

Probably Thunderbird also has this feature in v3.

 

[David Mark]

Is there a good list of code reviews for jQuery? To be suitable for the
compendium, they should be simple, purely technical (unbiased), focused,
relevant, and to-the-point.

While there are numerous known problems regarding jQuery attr and
removeAttr, they're loosely scattered.

So, what's you're best jQuery thread?

All of mine are the best. But seriously, it's been done to
death. All you need to know is that it uses get/removeAttribute in an
unshielded manner. In other words, the code assumes that those
methods have consistent interfaces in all major browsers in use
today. Of course, they do not (as we've been over about a million
times). They aren't even consistent in an IE8-only environment,
unless you can turn off its Compatibility View.

For some demonstrations of this (among other maladies), see the
results of their silly query engines here:-

http://www.cinsoft.net/slickspeed.html

Wouldn't bank on those things if I were you. Too bad jQuery,
Dojo, etc. bet the farm on them.