$(selector) should actually return all elements found by selector, else length=0 if no elements found

[ashbrener]

(have also updated author of my previous commit, was using an old github account)

[loganfsmyth]

I already merged the other PR so this conflicts. Can you elaborate on your use-case here? We never worried about the multi-element case because we're trying to only cover the cases used by Backbone, not be a general-purpose library. In the case of Backbone, you wouldn't have a this.$el with multiple elements.

[ashbrener]

Understood, our intention is to leverage backbone.native for some of the simpler expected jQuery behavior (given that the functions have already been made available to the document by backbone.native).

The use case is a small single-file .js api that doesn't depend on the full jQuery lib, but employs a handful of the more commonly used functions to keep html rendering / manipulation code lite.