Microsoft has submitted it’s second proposal to the jQuery Project outlining a plugin that allows properties within objects to be linked to each other. Termed “data linking”, the new plugin would allow changes made to a property of one object to effect a change on the property of a secondary object. The plugin leverages jQuery’s “special events” API to create a new event that will trigger when a change occurs on a bound object property. This would allow a developer to link properties in the following way:
var person = {};
$(“#name”).linkTo(“val”, person, “name”);
$(“#name”).val(“foo”);
alert(person.name); // foo
// … user changes value …
alert(person.name); // user typed value
The proposal has been submitted via the jQuery forums and Microsoft is actively soliciting community feedback:
http://forum.jquery.com/topic/proposal-for-adding-data-linking-to-jquery
A prototype of the data linking is available for review via Github:
http://github.com/nje/jquery-datalink
We’re pleased to see Microsoft’s continued contribution to our open source community and ask that you provide feedback in guiding this effort along.
The jQuery Project is very excited to announce the