No clue, but it's nice to have a namespace for it, rather than mucking up the global context with a simple utility method. Might be better off shimmying up to u

No clue, but it's nice to have a namespace for it, rather than mucking up the global context with a simple utility method. Might be better off shimmying up to underscore (perhaps only if it's already detected, otherwise go global?), however there are lots of similar jquery 'plugins' of this nature..