Transform $.bindReady into $.ready.promise. It is now possible to use...

Transform $.bindReady into $.ready.promise. It is now possible to use $.ready.promise or $.when( $.ready ) to get the ready promise. Costs *1* byte min/gzipped. Unit test added.

src/core.js

@@ -251,11 +251,8 @@ jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
 	},
 
 	ready: function( fn ) {
-		// Attach the listeners
-		jQuery.bindReady();
-
 		// Add the callback
-		readyList.add( fn );
+		jQuery.ready.promise().done( fn );
 
 		return this;
 	},
@@ -412,7 +409,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 			}
 
 			// If there are functions bound, to execute
-			readyList.fireWith( document, [ jQuery ] );
+			readyList.resolveWith( document, [ jQuery ] );
 
 			// Trigger any bound ready events
 			if ( jQuery.fn.trigger ) {
@@ -421,51 +418,6 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		}
 	},
 
-	bindReady: function() {
-		if ( readyList ) {
-			return;
-		}
-
-		readyList = jQuery.Callbacks( "once memory" );
-
-		// Catch cases where $(document).ready() is called after the
-		// browser event has already occurred.
-		if ( document.readyState !== "loading" ) {
-			// Handle it asynchronously to allow scripts the opportunity to delay ready
-			return setTimeout( jQuery.ready, 1 );
-		}
-
-		// Mozilla, Opera and webkit nightlies currently support this event
-		if ( document.addEventListener ) {
-			// Use the handy event callback
-			document.addEventListener( "DOMContentLoaded", DOMContentLoaded, false );
-
-			// A fallback to window.onload, that will always work
-			window.addEventListener( "load", jQuery.ready, false );
-
-		// If IE event model is used
-		} else if ( document.attachEvent ) {
-			// ensure firing before onload,
-			// maybe late but safe also for iframes
-			document.attachEvent( "onreadystatechange", DOMContentLoaded );
-
-			// A fallback to window.onload, that will always work
-			window.attachEvent( "onload", jQuery.ready );
-
-			// If IE and not a frame
-			// continually check to see if the document is ready
-			var toplevel = false;
-
-			try {
-				toplevel = window.frameElement == null;
-			} catch(e) {}
-
-			if ( document.documentElement.doScroll && toplevel ) {
-				doScrollCheck();
-			}
-		}
-	},
-
 	// See test/unit/core.js for details concerning isFunction.
 	// Since version 1.3, DOM methods and functions like alert
 	// aren't supported. They return false on IE (#2968).
@@ -897,6 +849,50 @@ jQuery.extend({
 	browser: {}
 });
 
+jQuery.ready.promise = function( object ) {
+	if ( !readyList ) {
+
+		readyList = jQuery.Deferred();
+
+		// Catch cases where $(document).ready() is called after the
+		// browser event has already occurred.
+		if ( document.readyState !== "loading" ) {
+			// Handle it asynchronously to allow scripts the opportunity to delay ready
+			setTimeout( jQuery.ready, 1 );
+
+		// Mozilla, Opera and webkit nightlies currently support this event
+		} else if ( document.addEventListener ) {
+			// Use the handy event callback
+			document.addEventListener( "DOMContentLoaded", DOMContentLoaded, false );
+
+			// A fallback to window.onload, that will always work
+			window.addEventListener( "load", jQuery.ready, false );
+
+		// If IE event model is used
+		} else if ( document.attachEvent ) {
+			// ensure firing before onload,
+			// maybe late but safe also for iframes
+			document.attachEvent( "onreadystatechange", DOMContentLoaded );
+
+			// A fallback to window.onload, that will always work
+			window.attachEvent( "onload", jQuery.ready );
+
+			// If IE and not a frame
+			// continually check to see if the document is ready
+			var toplevel = false;
+
+			try {
+				toplevel = window.frameElement == null;
+			} catch(e) {}
+
+			if ( document.documentElement.doScroll && toplevel ) {
+				doScrollCheck();
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return readyList.promise( object );
+};
+
 // Populate the class2type map
 jQuery.each("Boolean Number String Function Array Date RegExp Object".split(" "), function(i, name) {
 	class2type[ "[object " + name + "]" ] = name.toLowerCase();

test/data/event/promiseReady.html

+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+<title>Test case for jQuery ticket #11470</title>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../include_js.php"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript">
+jQuery.when( jQuery.ready ).done(function() {
+	jQuery("body").append("<div>modifying DOM</div>");
+	window.parent.iframeCallback( $("div").text() === "modifying DOM" );
+});
+</script>
+</head>
+<body>
+<!-- long loading iframe -->
+</body>
+</html>
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test/unit/event.js

@@ -2800,6 +2800,11 @@ test("fixHooks extensions", function() {
 // which breaks order of execution on async loaded files
 // also need PHP to make the incepted IFRAME hang
 if ( hasPHP ) {
+	testIframeWithCallback( "jQuery.ready promise", "event/promiseReady", function( isOk ) {
+		expect(1);
+		ok( isOk, "$.when( $.ready ) works" );
+	});
+
 	testIframeWithCallback( "jQuery.ready synchronous load with long loading iframe", "event/syncReady", function( isOk ) {
 		expect(1);
 		ok( isOk, "jQuery loaded synchronously fires ready before all sub-resources are loaded" );