add ability to call public prototype functions

[addyosmani]

Because this is the lightweight start version of the plugin: do you think beginners would really want to use this? Considering the barebones factor vs doing anything we might consider a little more advanced.

[zenorocha]

That's true, this feature was proposed by @markdalgleish on #46, which I think that is important, but I don't want to scare beginners too.

[markdalgleish]

I agree that this is potentially too complex for beginners in the context of sharing design patterns. However, I think that this is a perfect candidate for a boilerplate since it's very useful, very powerful but tedious to code for every plugin.

Is it possible for jQuery Boilerplate to be more advanced than the beginner-friendly version in this repo?

[addyosmani]

I think there is definitely scope for a variation of the beginners boilerplate with the above landing in this repo. We have many patterns :)

Perhaps an intermediate boilerplate with enhancements like this?

On Tuesday, 22 May 2012, Mark Dalgleish wrote:

I agree that this is potentially too complex for beginners in the context of sharing design patterns. However, I think that this is a perfect candidate for a boilerplate since it's very useful, very powerful but tedious to code for every plugin.

Is it possible for jQuery Boilerplate to be more advanced than the beginner-friendly version in this repo?

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[zenorocha]

I think it's possible @markdalgleish.

If we create a better documentation on jQuery Boilerplate, we can add this feature to help intermediaries without affecting the beginners.

Even because the Plugins/Authoring's guide explains how to use methods. It's an important feature.

[zenorocha]

Just to let you know that I don't think it's good to accept this pull request. The ability to call public prototype functions is very important, but it adds a very complex piece of code for a basic pattern. So, for now, what I'm doing in jQuery Boilerplate repository is creating these two guides:

• How did we get here?
• Extending jQuery Boilerplate - that constains this pattern.

[addyosmani]

Thanks for the update, @zenorocha. As per your suggestion closing this PR. Lets continue discussing how we can improve docs for the patterns/boilerplate on the other thread as time allows :)

[zenorocha]

Great!