On: Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2kb jquery alternative

[johnhenry]

I like it! Since it's a jQuery alternative, I wonder if you've considered having the global name default to "$" rather than "u"?

[franciscop → johnhenry]

It was somewhere in the documentation but I took that off deliberately since it's not really 100% compatible, so it'd just confuse people long-term.

> Edit: HN killed all the fun, I am refering to this character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2602/index.htm

Funny enough, the name actually comes from the fact that unicode characters are accepted. First it was just a wrapper for document.querySelector(), and looking for a single character for the name I found out that this could be used:

    [umbrellachar]('.demo')

Of course in the end I decided against it, but for some time the official name of the library/function was just that character.

[zyxley → johnhenry]

Now I'm wondering how long until we start seeing frameworks use Unicode like 𐅭 or 𒌔.