Thanks very much for this article. I am looking at modelling my plugins on it. One thing I noticed which would be good to get your clarification:

When you call a private method, the scope inside the private method (ie. the ‘this’ object) is equal to the Window object. Is this intended?

Cheers

Pete…

You can see many more ways of doing this at http://jqueryboilerplate.com/

1.) Your Type.
As a former PHP developer i would prefer to have an class-object.
So i really like your type of writing plugins.

2.) The jQuery recommended way
(http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring/)

i Really like the way they call “public” methods.
especially that part:

$.fn.tooltip = function( method ) {
    
    if ( methods[method] ) {
      return methods[method].apply( this, Array.prototype.slice.call( arguments, 1 ));
    } else if ( typeof method === 'object' || ! method ) {
      return methods.init.apply( this, arguments );
    } else {
      $.error( 'Method ' +  method + ' does not exist on jQuery.tooltip' );
    }    
  
  };

But how can i use this type of “method-calls” with OO Instances!?
I’m confused with mixing the two types.
Is there any recommended way to do so?

var init_method = function() {
   $(obj).delegate('.trigger', 'click', handle_event);
}
var handle_event = function() {
   // do something
}

thanks

Luc

return this.each(function() {

is not good if I have million elements..

$(element) comes up undefined for me.

Thanks

Chris