On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Russell Leggett <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> Can you answer the 'cost' side of the BTF issue? That is if BTF was >> really easy, how many times would we have to opt-out so we can use the >> default value of "this"? My guess: you will need a lot zeros in place >> of X in 0.0X% ;-) >> >> Sometimes the 'this' is not needed at all; does it ever matter that it >> is set to the lexical this? >> >> > There is a really big use case here that I worry about with BTF: jQuery > event handlers > > For whatever reason, the jQuery guys decided that it would be awesome if > inside the handler, 'this' was bound > to the dom element that the event handler was attached to. > Yes! Much like the DOM: http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/KUdYE/ Rick > > > $('#foo').bind('click', function() { > alert($(this).text()); > }); > > > I think you'll find that pattern all over the place for those using jQuery. > > - Russ > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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