As you may or may not be aware as of jQuery 1.7 the whole event system was rewritten from the ground up. The codebase is much faster and with the new .on()
method there is a lot of uniformity to wiring up event handlers.
I was chatting with Jim Cowart (@ifandelse) on Skype today about jQuery. He pasted in a snippet of code and Skype translated part of it into one of itβs emoticons. He almost immediately updated the chat message to fix the issue, but it got me starting to thinkβ¦ and that can be very dangerous.
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