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Replied.
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Ariel Flesler
http://flesler.blogspot.com

I have a special event implementation of the "hoverIntent" plugin, and
there are two options that are configurable (delay,speed). Currently,
these options are only configurable document wide as they are
attributes of the special event object. By leveraging the data
parameter into the special event setup, I can extract custom settings
within the setup function. The setup attaches mouseenter and
mouseleave handlers and already uses the data param internally to
share variables between the handlers. Personally, I don't plan on
customizing the settings of this event per call, but such a small
change would open a lot of possibilities. I understand that the data
object is shared by all of the bound events, and while that may be a
pitfall for some, I think it could also be cleverly powerful. In
reality, it will most likely not be used by many developers, because
as you said, data is undefined most of the time.

I reasigned to Brandon as he was the one to add the whole special
events feature.
He's busy right now but he probably checks this soon.
I personally think this is a useful feature for plugins that are
called by binding special events (no $().foo call).
Though as we said, using the data can cause problems on edge cases.
Cheers
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Ariel Flesler
http://flesler.blogspot.com/