On Monday, August 27, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
If you don't like the XHTML-ish shortcut that jQuery provides, then our coding conventions should be to use `$( '<div></div>' );`.
Either way $( '<div>' ) is NOT something officially supported by jQuery and makes it easy for developers to accidentally write broken code.
By Jove, you're right. The jQuery docs confirm. Retracted!
-- Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org