calling $() with new String()

calling $() with new String()

  1. $(new String("button")).get();
  2. /* returns
  3. b,u,t,t,o,n
  4. */
This (ridiculous?) $() call is it seems easy to avoid by replacing (jQuery.1.9.1.js line 132):
  1. // Handle HTML strings
  2. if ( typeof selector === "string" ) {
With this :
  1. // Handle HTML strings
  2. if ( jQuery.type(selector) === "string" ) {
I can't think of any other use case for this change to be perhaps necessary. Please discuss.

--DBJ