You had to have an event bound in order to trigger an event - which is not necessaril...

diff --git a/src/event/event.js b/src/event/event.js
index a948bfcfd02e878d14764c9a35bcd25e7c438460..565b9154c53f50a4194d0de9cee15e62112563d2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/event/event.js
+++ b/src/event/event.js
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ jQuery.event = {
                                this.triggered = true;
                                element[ type ]();
                        }
-               }
+               } else if ( jQuery.isFunction( element[ type ] ) )
+                       element[ type ]();
        },
 
        handle: function(event) {