I've been working on an XHR module loader and have

been looking into integrating jQuery. I'm hoping to be able to use

jQuery without modification. However, since jQuery explicitly

augments the

window

object instead of implicitly through the global

context object, a small change would be necessary to make this

possible.

I've attached a patch which should have no impact on the functionality of the library core as it stands, but would permit jQuery to be used as a "Chiron" module with no modification hereafter.

In its current form, jQuery adds the

jQuery

and

$

methods to the

window

object. This patch changes 4 lines so that instead of augmenting the

window

explicitly, the library implicitly adds them to the

window

by adding them to

this

. In global scope,

this

is the same as

window

. However, if someone includes a script with

modules.js

,

this

is the module object. I've taken care to assure that the enclosure gets the global context object in

outro.js

.

This change should have no impact on current deployments. I did a

spot check on the patched version of jquery.js and it appears to work fine for trivial cases in as both a global script and a module script. The only difference is that, as a module, the script has no impact on the

window

object.