id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,blocking,blockedby
11891,catch-all event handler,faassen,,"In jQuery 1.6.4, registering an event handler on $(document) or $(window) would work as a catch-all event handler, even for events on elements that
are not attached to the DOM. In jQuery 1.7 this changed

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10489

See also this jsFiddle demonstrating the difference between 1.7 and 1.6.4; in 1.6.4 this fires twice, but if you switch to 1.7.2 it'll fire only once.

http://jsfiddle.net/jzESV/14/

My code was relying on this catch-all event handling behavior, but broke. I understand why this fix was made, but would it be possible to add a feature to jQuery that would allow the developer to register a catch-all event handler that will be triggered if no element-level (or document level or window level) event handler can be found? This would simplify my code; now I have to check whether the event was handled at all, and if not, trigger the catch-all handler, which is more ugly than I'd like it to be. I don't know what ""this"" should be in such a handler, but ev.target is still available to do something interesting.

(I tried to look for such a feature in the code but I couldn't find anything - sorry if I missed something.)
",enhancement,closed,undecided,None,unfiled,1.7.2,invalid,,,,