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Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by jdavid on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:37PM (#4149234)
Global ajax events: ( are being removed )

    Events such as ajaxStart fired by $.ajax 
    can currently be attached to any element–even
    to elements that are not in a document at all!
    This creates an inefficient special case, 
    so we will eventually remove that ability 
    and fire ajax events only on document.
I need to look into this. If you are using jQuery outside of a standard browser environment this might be problematic.
Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by TheHegemon on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:40PM (#4149959)
> Ajax events should be attached only on document as of 1.9.

Looks like they are not being removed but that you should attach to document only.

Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by dmethvin on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:04PM (#4149345)
Wouldn't you be using the callback or Promise for those cases?
Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by gnarf on Friday June 22, 2012 @08:36PM (#4149649)
Or prefilter if you need to track global requests.