I don't like writing function(){$(this).doStuff()} for callbacks and
wanted some more elegant way of binding objects to functions. I could always use something like Prototype's bind, but I don't want to modify built-in types
(because John Resig says not to) and I generally just want to bind plugins to jQuery objects, so it ought to be a
plugin. Inspired by Ariel Flesler's jquery.sugar and John Resig's ultrachaining.
So we have $.later and $.fn.later. $.later() returns a chainable function that is bound at
call time to this.
$.later().css('color', 'red').append('<span>more</span>') is the same as
function() { $(this).css('color', 'red').append('<span>more</span>') }.
$(selector, context).later() is similar, but binds to $(selector, context) at call time:
$('p').later().css('color', 'red').append('<span>more</span>') is the same as
function() { $('p').css('color', 'red').append('<span>more</span>') }
Examples
$('#example1').click($.later().toggleClass('bold'));
<div id="example1">
Example 1:
<span>Click Me</span>
</div>
$('#example2').click($('.example:last').later().animate({fontSize: '+=2'}, $('.example:first').later().fadeOut().fadeIn()));
<div id="example2">
Example 2:
<span class="example">Click Me</span> |
<span class="example">Watch Me</span>
</div>
