Is it possible to have these in a stand alone library/namespace without the need for bringing the whole of jQuery with it? Not everyone uses jQuery in their JS application and it certainly would aid those who perform server-side JS.
IMO it's especially heinous because I didn't see a single piece of jQuery use in the code (I may have missed it, though). All they seem to be requiring jQuery for is to add to the $ namespace.
That pedantry aside, it seems like a decent enough chunk of code, and it's very easy to read. More libraries should be this clean.
This is perhaps an inelegant solution but i've found it useful sometimes, you can get standalone functions of most of these by using a JS port of PHP functions called phpjs (phpjs.org), while i understand PHP is as cool as toe fungus on HN right now, its a solution.
EDIT: Actually having now looked at the code, it seems a lot of it is specifically using the phpjs library.
jQuery bit was originally intended to make it compatible with require.js loading; chetan51, Groxx - thanks for pointing it out. We removed that bit but we missed the dependancy, removed now thanks to chetan51
This is great! I love how it aligns with the Django templating system as well =) Although I do agree that this might be better off a something that is framework independent. A while ago I posted an example on Forrst of how you might write a simple and pure-js shorten function: https://forrst.com/posts/JavaScript_Shorten_Function-1up
I totally agree. i.e. plural should be handled by i18n libraries. Same thing for the thousands separator, different locales use different separators/styles.
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