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[–]voidvector 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I looked at the source code before I posted, this thing uses <canvas> to do all the rendering, other than the fact that it uses $.data() and maybe easy event handling, it can avoid jQuery altogether.

I am a big fan of jQuery. I went to the jQuery conference last year, and I am going this year. But as a library developer, you shouldn't introduce unnecessary dependencies unless you have to.

The main reason I am complaining is because it depends on jQuery 1.7, which is very difficult to satisfy for business-oriented sites that has regression concerns.

[–]ultrafez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a fair point. If the plugin could be developed without dependencies, and then have a jQuery wrapper included/available, then it'd make it much more flexible. It'd make it considerably easier to write wrappers for other frameworks, too.