I like $.connect(ev, fn) ;)
Gilles wrote:
> If the all name is still around then it is ok, it's just sometimes in
> the past changes where made that would not support earlier ways of
> doing thing which lead to plugins no longer working. If it's more an
> alias that is created than I am up for it.
>
> I like Daniel's idea of event(), couldn't make more sense than that
> really :)
>
> On Jul 20, 11:03 am, Már <mar.orlygs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> jQuery(someElement).bind('click', someFunction.bind(this));
>>>
>> I think as `Function.prototype.bind` becomes more mainstream (years
>> from now) this will indeed become common cause of confusuion for
>> jQuery newcomers.
>>
>> However, all mature libraries are bound have their share of
>> idiosyncratic/lame-duck legacy naming baggage to confuse newcomers.
>>
>> jQuery has a couple or so already:
>> * `$.fn.load()` has fundamentally different semantics depending on
>> the arguments you feed it.
>> * `$.fn.remove()` is not a normal `removeChild()`, but actually a
>> "destroy" method.
>> * etc.
>>
>> ...and it's very difficult to avoid these sort of things completely -
>> without either A) clean restart (breaking backwards compatibility) -
>> or B) building up a large stack of depricated method names that lie
>> "hidden"/forgotten only to spring on unsuspecting developers when they
>> least need to have to deal with cryptic bugs in their code.
>>
>> Design is damn hard.
>> ;-)
>>
>> --
>> Már
>>
> >
>
>
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