Monthly Archives: January 2009

jQuery 1.3 launched!

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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 :D
Also, you can find a new api documentation for jQuery 1.3.

Two short (and great!) news

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First of all, Happy New Year guys!

The first great news (and is kinda old, is from the last year :( ) is about jQuery UI 1.6. We have a new RC4 for testing and reporting bugs with a brand new theme roller. Whats this mean? Well.. Not too much if you are not using jQuery :P

The second great news (and is related somehow with first one) is that jQuery 1.3 is in beta 2, according to John. Is related with first news because final UI will work only with jQuery 1.3 so if you test, make sure you test both. If you don’t want to test jQuery 1.3 I think you don’t know what you missing: brand new selector engine, large portion of code was rewritten, and so on. Long story short: HUGE performance improvement.

Let’s hope the final version of both jQuery and UI will be released soon and bug free :D

Later edit: jQuery 1.3 b2 on official blog.