This isn't really an issue, just... about waypoints HOT 1 CLOSED

Hi @jyeager11, first of all, thanks for taking such an interest in Waypoints. Suggestions from folks of all JS skill levels are welcome and essential for gaining a different perspective on the project.

I think some of the confusion stems from what role I believe Waypoints plays in a developers arsenal. My intention, and how it has been written, is as a tool for JS developers that takes a sometimes rough browser action (scroll) and turns it into a slightly higher level abstraction (when element X hits position Y in the viewport, fire function Z). This resulting abstraction is still relatively low-level, in that a developer still needs to understand how to put those pieces together, and what to do within the function that is executed.

You haven't actually stated what you were trying to accomplish, only that it wasn't working, but I suspect you were trying to replicate one of the examples or some functionality on the project page itself. Waypoints is not a drop-and-go plugin for sticky elements, infinite scroll, or any of the other examples. The example pages are recipes that work for those specific pages alone, and are meant only to serve as code samples for how one might use the waypoint function. If you're looking for scripts that do these things out of the box, I can set you on a few paths with recommendations. Just let me know what you're trying to do.

Some stray answers to specifics: Modernizr and Flexie both give top Google results, but to summarize, Modernizr is a feature detection library + HTML5 shim. Flexie is a polyfill that gives CSS3 Flexible Box Model support to older browsers using JavaScript. I use both on the project page to support my CSS3 decisions with that design. They have no bearing on the Waypoints library, and you'll notice they aren't included in the download. Waypoints only requires including waypoints.js or waypoints.min.js and then you'll have access to the $.waypoints() and $(someSelector).waypoint() methods.

Hope this has been helpful in some way. I'm going to close this, since as you said it's not really an issue, but feel free to continue discussing in this thread. Or you can reach out to me directly, whatever works for you.

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