significant $.val() regress bug on <select> elements in v1.3!

significant $.val() regress bug on <select> elements in v1.3!


.val() now returns undefined if <option> elements contain a "value"
attribute, otherwise val() returns text() of the :selected option.
both actually seem incorrect to me but only the first behavior seems
like a blocker regress. i first noticed that it was strange that the
"single select" example for val() contains no "value" attributes, and
instead returns text() if they are not present. http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/val
i just ran into this during my webapp port.
testcase:
http://www.thermosoft.com/test/select-val-bug.php
Leon