refactor($compile): remove out of date jQuery vs jqLite comment/workaround

jbedard · Narretz · commit 4879e49c938d · 2016-02-29T17:33:05.000+01:00
diff --git a/src/ng/compile.js b/src/ng/compile.js
@@ -1995,15 +1995,12 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
 
           var controllerInstance = $controller(controller, locals, true, directive.controllerAs);
 
-          // For directives with element transclusion the element is a comment,
-          // but jQuery .data doesn't support attaching data to comment nodes as it's hard to
-          // clean up (http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8335).
+          // For directives with element transclusion the element is a comment.
+          // In this case .data will not attach any data.
           // Instead, we save the controllers for the element in a local hash and attach to .data
           // later, once we have the actual element.
           elementControllers[directive.name] = controllerInstance;
-          if (!hasElementTranscludeDirective) {
-            $element.data('$' + directive.name + 'Controller', controllerInstance.instance);
-          }
+          $element.data('$' + directive.name + 'Controller', controllerInstance.instance);
         }
         return elementControllers;
       }
