@matsko I looked at the code & I think current implementation is abusing events a little. The `'$animate:'`-prefixed events are only `triggerHandler`-ed anyway so you bail out on bubbling. Perhaps it would be better to define a method on the `$animate` service that would publish those events to which you'd subscribe.

Again, we need to think about this now, before 1.3.0 is released and things like that will be set in stone; especially that it's highly likely `._data()` will go away soon.