I think that there's a simpler answer to this.
If we're going to overhaul the API that much, we need to do three things.
1. Talk it out thoroughly, and make sure we get it "right" this time.
2. Publish a new full release of jQuery (2.0).
3. Put all of the "breaking changes" at the top of the README.
Also, from a different branch of the discussion, I'm all for namespacing.
But, in the case of jQuery, where terseness is one of it's greatest
assets, we should use very selective namespacing.
e.g.
$.ajaxStop() -> $.ajax.stop()
$.serialize() -> $.form.serialize(), $.xml.serialize()
$.load() -> $.on.load(), $.ajax.load()
$.unload -> $.on.unload() {unload event}, $.un.load() {remove load() event}
$.filter -> Don't change this. :)
The idea is that we make the names VERY English-intuitive, and resolve the
name collisions we have using as few characters as possible - adding only
a dot to an already existing function, if possible/applicable.
Thoughts?
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