After exactly three years from the very first version, we jave jQuery 1.3. What’s new here?

• Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine.
• Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
• jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
• HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
• Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
• No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come
• .hide() and .show() have been rewritten to become much faster. The frequently-used methods are now almost 2.5x faster.
• Default animations have been smoothed. Traditionally show/hide and slideUp/slideDown have only animated width, height, and/or opacity. We’ve added in margin and padding as well to provide a smoother animation. More information: show, hide, toggle, slideDown, slideUp, slideToggle
• and many, more. You can read full release post here

Long story short: we have a better library with a better than ever selector engine. We can now wait and wait for jQuery UI 1.6 final (now is on rc4) and we are all set
Also, you can find a new api documentation for jQuery 1.3.

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