jQuery comes with promises, but Zepto doesn't. This is a small deferred library that also extends Zepto to behave like jQuery with promises, so things like AJAX requests as setup as deferred automatically.

Matthew Riley MacPherson (Sent from mobile)

> On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:27, "sole" <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> 
> In www/js/collections/checkins.coffee:
> 
> >    'use strict'
> >  
> >    CheckinCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend
> >      localStorage: new Store 'Checkins'
> >      model: Checkin
> >  
> > +    initialize: ->
> > +      d = $.Deferred()
> silly question, are these zepto's/jquery's promises? (just curious as to where does Deferred come from)
> 
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