Extending jQuery UI datepicker

Question

I'm trying to extend jQuery's datepicker via the $.widget function, jQuery UI 1.10.3, with $.ui.datepicker as the base.

It seems that $.ui.datepicker is an object (unlike pretty much all the other widgets) and $.widget throws a TypeError when trying to instantiate the base.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

From comments by blgt:

The datepicker does not use the widget factory and thus you can't use it to extend it

It seems like there is a rewrite underway, which should implement Datepicker using the widget factory.