Question about event delegation in jQuery 1.3

Question about event delegation in jQuery 1.3

<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div>I have a question about the proposed event delegation in jQuery 1.3. I don't think it was discussed before, but if it was, my apologies in advance.</div><div>Perhaps it's my dumb nature, but when using Jörn's plugin, I found that I kept running into an issue of how I expected it to work, and how it actually worked.</div><div>My expectation was that it would bubble like normal events (without thinking about why it didn't logically bubble).</div><div>
</div><div>In the delegate plugin, there is code to check if the event.target is the item we're trying to detect for. However, there are many times when the children element are styled to take up the visual space of the element. In which case, normal event binding works because of the bubbling.</div><div>In the case of delegation, nothing happens, though I would think that there would be an expectation for it to work.</div><div>
</div><div>Am I the only one?</div><div>I could just add a universal selector to the selector Im delegating against, but that feels the opposite of what I would expect I would have to do.</div><div>
</div><div>But I would love to hear some other opinions on it :)</div><div>
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<b>Nate Cavanaugh</b></div><div>Director of User Interface Engineering</div><div>Liferay, Inc.</div><div>Enterprise. Open Source. For life.</div></div><div>
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