bumping jquery to 1.7+

Author: tgriesser

backbone.js

@@ -1099,9 +1099,9 @@
       // Depending on whether we're using pushState or hashes, and whether
       // 'onhashchange' is supported, determine how we check the URL state.
       if (this._hasPushState) {
-        Backbone.$(window).bind('popstate', this.checkUrl);
+        Backbone.$(window).on('popstate', this.checkUrl);
       } else if (this._wantsHashChange && ('onhashchange' in window) && !oldIE) {
-        Backbone.$(window).bind('hashchange', this.checkUrl);
+        Backbone.$(window).on('hashchange', this.checkUrl);
       } else if (this._wantsHashChange) {
         this._checkUrlInterval = setInterval(this.checkUrl, this.interval);
       }
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@
     // Disable Backbone.history, perhaps temporarily. Not useful in a real app,
     // but possibly useful for unit testing Routers.
     stop: function() {
-      Backbone.$(window).unbind('popstate', this.checkUrl).unbind('hashchange', this.checkUrl);
+      Backbone.$(window).off('popstate', this.checkUrl).off('hashchange', this.checkUrl);
       clearInterval(this._checkUrlInterval);
       History.started = false;
     },
@@ -1325,9 +1325,9 @@
         method = _.bind(method, this);
         eventName += '.delegateEvents' + this.cid;
         if (selector === '') {
-          this.$el.bind(eventName, method);
+          this.$el.on(eventName, method);
         } else {
-          this.$el.delegate(selector, eventName, method);
+          this.$el.on(eventName, selector, method);
         }
       }
     },
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@
     // You usually don't need to use this, but may wish to if you have multiple
     // Backbone views attached to the same DOM element.
     undelegateEvents: function() {
-      this.$el.unbind('.delegateEvents' + this.cid);
+      this.$el.off('.delegateEvents' + this.cid);
     },
 
     // Performs the initial configuration of a View with a set of options.

index.html

@@ -570,12 +570,12 @@ <h2 id="downloads">
 
     <p>
       Backbone's only hard dependency is either
-      <a href="http://underscorejs.org/">Underscore.js</a> <small>( > 1.4.3)</small> or
+      <a href="http://underscorejs.org/">Underscore.js</a> <small>( >= 1.4.3)</small> or
       <a href="http://lodash.com">Lo-Dash</a>.
       For RESTful persistence, history support via <a href="#Router">Backbone.Router</a>
       and DOM manipulation with <a href="#View">Backbone.View</a>, include
       <a href="https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js">json2.js</a>, and either
-      <a href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a> <small>( > 1.4.2)</small> or
+      <a href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a> <small>( >= 1.7.0)</small> or
       <a href="http://zeptojs.com/">Zepto</a>.
     </p>
 
@@ -2578,7 +2578,7 @@ <h2 id="View">Backbone.View</h2>
     <p id="View-delegateEvents">
       <b class="header">delegateEvents</b><code>delegateEvents([events])</code>
       <br />
-      Uses jQuery's <tt>delegate</tt> function to provide declarative callbacks
+      Uses jQuery's <tt>on</tt> function to provide declarative callbacks
       for DOM events within a view.
       If an <b>events</b> hash is not passed directly, uses <tt>this.events</tt>
       as the source. Events are written in the format <tt>{"event selector": "callback"}</tt>.

test/index.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <title>Backbone Test Suite</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="vendor/qunit.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
   <script src="vendor/json2.js"></script>
-  <script src="vendor/jquery-1.7.1.js"></script>
+  <script src="vendor/jquery-1.8.3.js"></script>
   <script src="vendor/qunit.js"></script>
   <script src="vendor/underscore.js"></script>
   <script src="../backbone.js"></script>