[jQuery] Please review my micro-plugin for a perceived hole in the jQuery API

[ken]

Does anyone see a problem with this? Has anyone else had to implement
something similar? Why wasn't something like this included with
jQuery?

/**
 * An AJAX extender for jQuery.fn.
 *
 * jQuery's low-level ajax implementation can handle every scenario
EXCEPT the situations where we want to apply
 * AJAX results directly to a DOM element; Curiously, jQuery has a
method that handles this, however, it isn't
 * compatible with the advanced jQuery.ajax() method:
 *
 *              jQuery( selector ).load( url )
 *
 * Therefore, this plugin was meant to plug a perceived hole in the
jQuery API by providing the following method:
 *
 *              jQuery( selector ).ajax( ajaxOptions )
 *
 * @param       ajaxOptions             object                  jQuery 
AJAX-options. Note, if a
"success" property is defined, it'll be overwritten by this plugin.
 * @return      jQuery collection
 */

(function(){

        jQuery.fn.ajax = function( ajaxOptions )
        {
                var that = this;

                var success = function success_cb( data, textStatus )
                {
                        that.html( data );
                }

                var ajaxOptions = jQuery.extend( {}, { success: success },
ajaxOptions );

                return jQuery.ajax( ajaxOptions );
        }

})();