> I would argue that the second half is a little unfair, since that style of coding is entirely influenced by jQuery. You usually don't actually need to trigger

> I would argue that the second half is a little unfair, since that style of coding is entirely influenced by jQuery. You usually don't actually need to trigger a real DOM event there, you just want to execute some callback as if the element was clicked. Maybe I'm missing something, but the second half is adding an event handler (`somethingClicked` is presumably a function). That seems like a _very_ common thing to do regardless of jQuery.