Honestly, I think that jQuery pre-1.6 did the right thing almost all the time and we all learned to deal with the boolean attribute edge case just fine. I feel

Honestly, I think that jQuery pre-1.6 did the right thing almost all the time and we all learned to deal with the boolean attribute edge case just fine. I feel like this change is taking jQuery in the wrong direction. We don't want to look back and say "1.6 is where the bloat began..."