I should note that I really do want to make $() == [], I just want to
make sure that no one's code is broken because of it. I'm fairly
certain that it won't cause major problems, but I'm not 100% certain.
(Note: Actually .ready() ignores the incoming selector when it binds
the ready event, although that might changed - we'll see.)
--John
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Brandon Aaron<brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is fixed in jQuery SVN. The only one that still returns the
> document is by not passing anything to jQuery: $() => [document] but
> all the others you posted return and empty collection.
>
> This is due to backwards compatibility so that $().ready(fn) continues
> to work properly.
>
> --
> Brandon Aaron
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Már Örlygsson<mar.orlygs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just got bitten by an unexpected (for me at least) behaviour of the
>> jQuery() function:
>>
>> $(), $(''), $(0), $(null) and $(undefined), all return a collection
>> equal to $(document).
>>
>> ...this causes weird things to happen when one converts a String to a
>> dom, when the string happens to be empty.
>>
>> Somehow I expected
>> $('body').append( $(html) );
>>
>> to be functionally equivalent to
>> $('body').append( html );
>>
>> Is that an unreasonable expectation, and if not, is it too late to
>> fix?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Már
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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