Widget factory does not clean up event bindings

Thank you Scott for reporting; here is my current workaround:

destroy: function() {

....

$.widget.prototype.destroy.apply(this, arguments); default destroy

see ticket; http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/5005

code fixes <= 1.7.2 ; expect bug will be fixed in 1.7.3

if($.ui.version <= "1.7.2") {

this.element.unbind("setData." + widgetName);

this.element.unbind("getData." + widgetName);

this.element.unbind("remove." + widgetName);

will remove all events sorry, might have other side effects?

this.element.unbind("remove");

}

},

The fix should be as easy as adding these lines to the widget destroy method (approx line 300 in ui.core.js):

this.element.unbind("setData." + name); 
this.element.unbind("getData." + name);
this.element.unbind("remove."  + name);

Fixed in new widget factory in dev branch in r3544.

Fixed in trunk in r3621 with merge.