Comments on: There is no such thing as a JavaScript plugin

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:49:27 +0000

There is no such thing as “classes” in JavaScript.

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Bookmarks about Thumbnail — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:45:37 +0000

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links for 2008-07-06 « Talkabout — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:32:28 +0000

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By: James Coglan

James Coglan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:37:13 +0000

Mike, that’s precisely what it is. Whether you use it or not is a design decision for you to make. Me, I like my languages to give me enough rope to hang myself rather than trying to stop me shooting myself in the foot. Rails’ vast plugin ecosystem (and I would hesitate to call them plugins, both for the reasons given above and for the fact that many of them would fail even to meet John Resig’s definition) would not be anything like as rich were it not for Ruby’s flexibility.

By: Mike Lin

Mike Lin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:16:06 +0000

Isn't what you're talking about just monkey patching? It's a practice well known to have a variety of issues.

By: Ajaxian » JavaScript Plugins; The beauty of loosely coupled code

Ajaxian » JavaScript Plugins; The beauty of loosely coupled code — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:16:29 +0000

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By: John Resig - jQuery Plugins, Size, and Storage

John Resig - jQuery Plugins, Size, and Storage — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:03:03 +0000

[...] There is no such thing as a JavaScript plugin contends James Coglan. I completely agree that there are no, specific, techniques within the JavaScript language that make “plugins” possible (such as the ability to namespace code and import it, or some such). [...]