documentcloud/backbone — pull request #1750 by ghing (2012-10-17 20:25:25+00:00)
Title: Better document View constructor's handling of options

Closes #1749

Backbone.View calls the _configure function which uses _.extend to extend
the properties of an options property declared on the view (if it exists).
This provides a mechanism for defining default view options that can be
overridden on a per-instance basis (in a similar fashion to how the el,
id and className options are handled). This functionality was previously
undocmented.