Why is this named "jQuery"?

[rugk]

Why is this client plugin named jQuery? It has not much to do with jQuery. A name such as "Etherpad JS wrapper" or "Etherpad JS embedder" would be more suitable. This name is really misleading...

AFAIK it really only creates a wrapper

Additionally when one admin says to another one "Hey, I use the Etherpad jQuery plugin on my server XY." it is not clear at all that this is a client-side plugin. I'd rather think it is a plugin I can install on the server. This is not only theoretical, I misunderstood it this way.

So you might rethink this name.

[rugk]

So I was just told this is a jQuery plugin as any other jQuery plugin. In this case this of course makes sense, but it can still be confused with a server side plugin, which adds jQuery to Etherpad. So maybe a name like "jquery-etherpad-lite-wrapper" would be useful, which makes clear this is a plugin for the client side.

[JohnMcLear]

All server side plugins have a prefix of ep_

On 5 Aug 2016 8:49 p.m., rugk [email protected] wrote:

So I was just told this is a jQuery plugin as any other jQuery plugin. In this case this of course makes sense, but it can still be confused with a server side plugin, which adds jQuery to Etherpad. So maybe a name like "jquery-etherpad-lite-wrapper" would be useful, which makes clear this is a plugin for the client side.

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[rugk]

Come on, as if anyone would notice this. In the Etherpad server admin interface they are shown without this prefix and when referring to a specific plugin you certainly don't always use the ep_ prefix too.

Additionally: Are you sure really all plugins have ep in their name? At least some do not have this name as their repo name on GitHub.

Such a prefix does not really prevent users from confusing this.