It is not deprecated in jQuery 1.1. Actually there is no difference (other than the use form) in jquery version 1.11.3 , if you check the .bind event declaration, which you can see, it just calls .on :
bind: function( types, data, fn ) { return this.on( types, null, data, fn ); },
is outdated or can it be used safely?
According to others, no, it is not outdated and safe, it is now a little redundant and exists only for backward compatibility.
Although it seems to have been marked as deprecated in later versions of jquery now
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