I started to write a reply to some of the comments here but ended up turning it into a blog post: http://ejohn.org/blog/jquery-16-and-attr/ http://ejohn.org/blo

I started to write a reply to some of the comments here but ended up turning it into a blog post: http://ejohn.org/blog/jquery-16-and-attr/ http://ejohn.org/blog/jquery-16-and-attr/ Looks like someone has submitted it to HN as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544698 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544698