521420 - Allow easy import of jQuery plugins

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090911 Fedora/3.5.3-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.3
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I love on jetpack idea of having jQuery inside. However, I see one of the main strengths of jQuery its many many plugins. Incoporating jQuery to be useful inside of jetpack is just hellishly complicated and ugly (I found
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack/browse_frm/thread/eaecfe4a05df31f4/a6a00162ee32d4dd but I am not much happy with it).

Could we have some simple way how to import jQuery plugin into jetpack script? Something like

jetpack.jQuery.import("http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/scripts/jquery.rpc.js);

and then I would be able to directly use

var server = $.rpc(your_server_url, "xml");
server.system.getCapabilities(function(data){console.log(data)});

etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  
incorporating jQuery plugins into jetpack is too copmlicated

Expected Results:  
it should be easy

Comment 1

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

Jetpack is presently undergoing changes that will alleviate this concern.  Additionally, we are going to be taking a framework agnostic approach that will allow any framework, and its plug-ins/extensions, to be used in this manner.

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Daniel, INVALID means the reported bug isn't really a bug.  This is definitely valid, so it should remain open until something resolves it.

Comment 3

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

The Cuddlefish reboot will address this issue in a more broad sense, per Nick's instructions, bug that describe enhancements under current development are to be marked in this manner.