jquery/jquery — comment on commit cc4a999648d2623972e6dabad0e6c4b1bb60458a
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By dmethvin:

Oh good, daddy is here! :)

IE won't give the user any useful error information if a plain string is thrown, so we changed `jQuery.error` to `throw new Error(msg)` instead. Since ajax uses it to throw in the transports I needed to find the places it was expecting strings. Thoughts?