mythz/jquip — Issue #8: Remove "jQuery" variable name
Author: rwldrn
Created: 2011-11-22 02:44:07+00:00
State: open

Many micro libraries have cropped up in the last year, all of them claiming some level of compatibility with jQuery, but none of them actually use the jQuery variable - because they are not jQuery. Using the jQuery _Identifier_ variable is misleading to end developers and misrepresents your project as a simple drop-in replacement for jQuery, while also tacitly implying an endorsement by jQuery and/or jQuery core developers, which is not the case. We are taking the task of exploring approaches to reduce jQuery's size very seriously ([Building A Slimmer jQuery](http://blog.jquery.com/2011/11/08/building-a-slimmer-jquery/), [File Size Considerations](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jquery-bugs-team/17rGK6eAAxI/discussion ) ), but I think that distributing your own library with the name "jQuery" in it will only serve to confuse users, who will only be getting something that's "mostly like" the window.jQuery they're used to - if it is indeed your intention to actually have people use jQuip. If, as you mention in the readme, you're only doing this project to "measure the demand" for "jQuery into organizing its code to be more modular," you can be assured that we're already well aware of the demand, and are investigating ways to achieve that end without slashing the functionality jQuery's users expect.