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It's just a timestamp of when jQuery was parsed.
I'm curious about where you need to use a guid for your plugins.

It would be useful for putting a unique id on dynamically created data or
elements
Ant
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From: jquery-dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery-dev@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Scott González
Sent: 01 October 2008 12:29
To: jQuery Development
Subject: [jquery-dev] Re: jQuery and guids
It's just a timestamp of when jQuery was parsed.
I'm curious about where you need to use a guid for your plugins.

<div dir="ltr">yup, thats all, I currently use a counting method which is fine, and this is essentially what jQuery is doing inside the 'data' method.  The only case I can think of is if I had a separate instances in a 2 Gears WorkerPools there is at least a potential for confusion.  'guid' might be a strong word, but it would be nice to know if there was a simple way to generate id's that were safe across WorkerPools.  I suppose there not really a practical problem at this point so long as we generally agree that 'now' is a strong enough guid then now() is the guid() I am loooking for.

<div dir="ltr">What about the jquery######### attribute that is already added to all elements and objects that jQuery has worked on?

<div dir="ltr">right.  That's the 'expando' which is
var expando = jQuery + now();
where
now = function(){
    return +new Date;
}
Im assuming this is strong, but wondered if it was strong enough to use the pattern in Gears WorkerPools.
so

Its obviously not a strong algorithm to create a random numbers that
could be used for security/encryption related tasks. What are you
doing with Gears?
Jörn