Event delegation plugin

Hi,
because of the bad performance of the .live-event, I wrote a little plugin to handle event delegation.
Now there are several plugins out there, but they are much bigger and slower than the following one.

So I ask myself: Did I miss something?

The plugin:

// listen
$.fn.listen = function(event, selector, callback) {
    return this.bind(event, function(e){
      el = $(e.target).closest(selector, this);
      if (el.length) callback.call(this, e, el);
   });
}

Examples:

$('#home').listen('click', 'a', function() { alert('wooord!') });

$('#home').listen('click', 'a', function(e, el) { el.hide() });

Greets,
McSod

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