If it's not a bug it is at least violates the principle of least
surprise.
The .is function returns true for things I don't think it should. See
the example below.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>bug?</title>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/
libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function bodgyIs(el, selector)
{
var el1 = el[0], candidates = $(selector);
for (var i=0, el2; el2 = candidates[i]; i++)
{
if (el1 == el2) return true;
}
return false;
}
$(document).ready(function ()
{
var selector = "#test .test";
var el = $("#dontFindMe")
alert(el.is(selector));
alert(bodgyIs(el, selector));
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="dontFindMe"></div>
</body>
</html>
