Handling plugin defaults and predefinitions

Setting plugin defaults globally

Sometimes it could be useful to set the plugin options globally, for all instances. The highly configurable-Pattern already provides a way for doing this, but the API doesn't looks pretty nice.

A more jQuery-ish way could be cleaner for the plugin-enduser (& even its developer).

$[pluginName] = $.fn[pluginName] = function (options) {
    if(!(this instanceof $)) { $.extend(defaults, options) }
    return this.each(function () {
        if (!$.data(this, "plugin_" + pluginName)) {
            $.data(this, "plugin_" + pluginName, new Plugin(this, options));
        }
    });
};

Now you can set the plugin defaults globally, for all instances. It doesn't matter whether you've already instantiated the plugin or not.

$.defaultPluginName({
    propertyName: 'foo'
});

You can override the defaults per element if necessary:

$.defaultPluginName({
    propertyName: 'foo'
});

$('selector1').defaultPluginName(); // returns "foo"

$('selector2').defaultPluginName({
    propertyName: 'bar'
}); // returns "bar"

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