Deprecate jQuery#size() in favor of jQuery#length

[mathias]

Please consider deprecating/removing jQuery#size() in favor of jQuery#length.

jQuery 1.8?

[Rick Waldron]

This could easily be included in a back-compat plugin (along with jQuery.browser )

[gnarf]

+1, I'm definitely in favor of this...

[Rick Waldron]

+1, Of course! Add to back compat plugin!

[Timmy Willison]

+0, I think it is still used too much. 1.8 will remove some minor things, but it's probably not the right time to remove .size(). I could be wrong tho.

[ajpiano]

+1, Probably a good time to at least officially "mark it for death" er, deprecation, so people have ample time and then we pull it in 1.9?/2.0?

[tj@…]

+1, deprecate for 1.8, remove in 1.9.

[anonymous]

+1

[mofle]

+1 Why was this added in the first place? It's the same number of characters as ".length".

[anonymous]

+1, I agree with mofle.

[Quozzo]

+1 I never even know this existed, .length FTW!

[dmethvin]

+1, Deprecate sure; remove in the distant future if ever. This discussion will take 10x the number of bytes the actual method does, and removing it will cause random stuff to break for no good reason.

[jzaefferer]

+1

[jaubourg]

+1, for deprecating, not removing

[mikesherov]

+1, deprecate only

[Timmy Willison]

+0, It's weird to me to deprecate something that isn't going to get removed, but we already say .length is preferred in the docs.

[Rick Waldron]

+1, Deprecate, yes, but why delay? Why not drop it and offer it in a back compat plugin

[cosinusweb@…]

+1 for deprecating not removing

[shahyar]

+1 for removal. The only internal uses of this are in the test cases, and support can easily be added with a compatibility plugin. jQuery UI uses it in a couple of spots, but I put in a pull request to fix that.

[dmethvin]

Honestly, guys, who really cares? More words have already been spilt than this is worth. We do not need any more AOL-style +1s on this thread.

[dmethvin]

Docs updated.

[dmethvin]

Clarifying the title to reflect the action taken in 1.8.