jquery core: Misc file size optimizations.

[jquery.git] / src / core.js

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index b5de145..9347689 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -9,25 +9,26 @@
  * $Rev$
  */
 
-// Map over jQuery in case of overwrite
-var _jQuery = window.jQuery,
-// Map over the $ in case of overwrite
-       _$ = window.$;
-
-var jQuery = window.jQuery = window.$ = function( selector, context ) {
-       // The jQuery object is actually just the init constructor 'enhanced'
-       return new jQuery.fn.init( selector, context );
-};
-
-// A simple way to check for HTML strings or ID strings
-// (both of which we optimize for)
-var quickExpr = /^[^<]*(<(.|\s)+>)[^>]*$|^#([\w-]+)$/,
-
-// Is it a simple selector
-       isSimple = /^.[^:#\[\.]*$/,
+var 
+       // Will speed up references to window, and allows munging its name.
+       window = this,
+       // Will speed up references to undefined, and allows munging its name.
+       undefined,
+       // Map over jQuery in case of overwrite
+       _jQuery = window.jQuery,
+       // Map over the $ in case of overwrite
+       _$ = window.$,
+
+       jQuery = window.jQuery = window.$ = function( selector, context ) {
+               // The jQuery object is actually just the init constructor 'enhanced'
+               return new jQuery.fn.init( selector, context );
+       },
 
-// Will speed up references to undefined, and allows munging its name.
-       undefined;
+       // A simple way to check for HTML strings or ID strings
+       // (both of which we optimize for)
+       quickExpr = /^[^<]*(<(.|\s)+>)[^>]*$|^#([\w-]+)$/,
+       // Is it a simple selector
+       isSimple = /^.[^:#\[\.,]*$/;
 
 jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
        init: function( selector, context ) {
@@ -819,6 +820,14 @@ jQuery.extend({
                if ( typeof context.createElement === "undefined" )
                        context = context.ownerDocument || context[0] && context[0].ownerDocument || document;
 
+               // If a single string is passed in and it's a single tag
+               // just do a createElement and skip the rest
+               if ( !fragment && elems.length === 1 && typeof elems[0] === "string" ) {
+                       var match = /^<(\w+)\s*\/?>$/.exec(elems[0]);
+                       if ( match )
+                               return [ context.createElement( match[1] ) ];
+               }
+
                var ret = [], scripts = [], div = context.createElement("div");
 
                jQuery.each(elems, function(i, elem){
@@ -915,9 +924,6 @@ jQuery.extend({
 
                });
 
-               // Clean up
-               div.innerHTML = "";
-               
                if ( fragment ) {
                        for ( var i = 0; ret[i]; i++ ) {
                                var node = ret[i];