Some ideas on reducing the file size

[anonymous]

I am not sure whether these are reasonable improvements or whether they have possible side effects, but I would like to shed some light on them:

• Use [] instead of Array.prototype. [].slice is used at certain places, but Array.prototype.push at other places.

• Use ({}) instead of Object.prototype

• The trim function could be smallened to one function like this:

trim: function( text ) {
        return text == null ?
            "" :
            String.trim ?
                String.trim.call( text ) :
                text.toString().replace( trimLeft, "" ).replace( trimRight, "" );
       }

[anonymous]

I meant [].splice instead of [].slice, I'm sorry.

[addyosmani]

Thanks for submitting a ticket to the jQuery Project!. I'm skeptical about the benefits of us replacing Array.prototype/Object.prototype etc with these shorthands. Do you have a fork of jQuery somewhere where these have been replaced and proven to actually work/pass our tests without anything breaking?. If not we may end up closing this ticket until there's further evidence. Leaving open now for further review.

[anonymous]

I'm sorry but I have not yet been able to get git working. If the ideas are not really improving then please just ignore them.

[dmethvin]

These are definitely changes that need to be tested for benefit. Usually we have something like var slice = Array.prototype.slice at the top of a file if we're using it more than once, to save space. [].prototype.slice is a bit smaller but it does create an object just to get the method.

Since the ticket doesn't report a specific problem I'll close it.