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jQuery makes me go hmmm

So I was busy looking into the ways to use jQuery in a prototype based object oriented fashion and was having a devil of a time geting it to work. I eventually turned to Goolge for help and I discovered this thread which is a discussion of sub-classing the jQuery object. It is mostly a back and forth between John Resig and Nate Cavanaugh covering Nate’s attempts at sub-classing jQuery. The long and short of the discussion is that jQuery has so many references to the global jQuery object that it cannot be cleanly sub-classed

So my initial concept was to subclass the jQuery object in my own objects to make new JavaScript objects with all of the functions of jQuery as well as my additions, but that is not going to work. That being said jQuery has a number of methods of adding objects and functions to jQuery; which is basically how plugins are developed. I will explore extending the jQuery and JQuery.fn objects with my own objects next.

This is part of my ongoing series of posts exploring the use of jQuery and object oriented JavaScripts, you might be interested in these posts as well:

• How to use object oriented programming with jQuery
• jQuery is object oriented