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From: Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:15:51 -0800
Subject: Re: best practice plugin authoring guidelines / window.plugins hate
Thread-Topic: best practice plugin authoring guidelines / window.plugins hate
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Hmm, how does this fit in with cordova.require ?

On 1/28/13 11:11 AM, "Brian LeRoux" <b@brian.io> wrote:

>I'm thinking we encourage:
>
>var insta =3D require('instagram')
>insta.share( ... )
>
>
>
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No reason to exist there, other than that is the way it used to be.
>> I would rather just see :
>>
>> var myRef =3D Instagram.install();
>> myRef.share( ... )
>>
>> I'll fork it.
>>
>> Also, I think we need to educate people on the use of
>>objects&&prototypes,
>> by example.
>> We too have multiple places where we define a prototype object of which
>> there will only evar be one ... off-topic sorry ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Don't think so. Should be up to the user. That said Cordova should
>>>provide
>>> a registration mechanism to enable collision detection (I think Andrew
>>> Grieve has something like this in his symbol mapping branch in
>>>cordova-js).
>>>
>>> On 1/28/13 10:34 AM, "Brian LeRoux" <b@brian.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> >The community is starting to put plugins in their own repos (good). I
>>> >noticed this one today:
>>> >
>>> >https://github.com/vstirbu/InstagramPlugin
>>> >
>>> >(Awesome.)
>>> >
>>> >But I can't stand window.plugins any longer. I think this might be a
>>> >hangover from the existing plugin space but not totally sure---is
>>> >there a good reason to have the plugins global "namespace" anymore?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> @purplecabbage
>> risingj.com