Elsewhere - Sandboxes Have Never Been That Easy
One of the most common problems in Web 2.0 Development, is the amount of libraries we can possibly include into a single project and conflicts these libraries could have. Some library is truly aggressive. It could change the entire behavior of each other lib present in the page via not-standard or future implementations of some global object prototype, such String, Object itseld, Array, or others. Since this is a well known problem, some library/framework can try to avoid conflicts in different ways. As example, jQuery has a noConflict method which aim is to make development as painless as possible ... but it is not always that simple. One of Elsewhere purpose is to connect a completely different and external scope into the main window, avoiding any sort of conflict a library with its global properties, functions, or prototypes, could have. First example: new Elsewhere( "scripts/libs/jquery.1.3.2.min.js" ).execute(function(ready){ // this scope is elsewhere in a perfe...