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curl.js is small, fast, extensible module loader that handles AMD, CommonJS Modules/1.1, CSS, HTML/text, and legacy scripts.
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Create css module loader (like curl's legacy loader) and a text loader. #226

Open unscriptable opened 10 years ago

unscriptable commented 10 years ago

I like the new config-based way we're specifying exports and dependencies in the new legacy loader. One of the things it fixes is that it eliminates the !order and !exports suffixes on the module ids necessary with the js! plugin. The css! plugin also uses suffixes (as well as allowing comma-separated ids which has the same consequences).

Removal of these suffixes, in turn, eliminates the need to have a normalize method on the plugin. And, finally, as we're coming to discover, the proposed ES6 module loader will not allow async normalization.

In short: the current js! and css! plugins won't work seamlessly in ES6 land because of their module id suffixes / normalization rules.

We should probably plan to break backwards compatibility on these plugins at some point, but maybe we should also investigate a css loader that allows the user to specify dependencies (for proper cascading) and an export (to allow the plugin to verify that the stylesheet is loaded in Chrome 14+ and Safari 6).

While we're at it. Why not a text loader, too?

Any thoughts? Comments?

unscriptable commented 10 years ago

This is related to, but not redundant with #234.