jQuery 1.3 Released on it's 3rd Birthday
3 years ago, a young and talanted developer put out a personal project to the OSS world. 3 years later his side project become one of the most influential frameworks for developing JavaScript-based applications. Today, the jQuery project turns 3 years old which, considering the churn rate for open source projects, is a monumental achievement.
So it makes sense that on the project’s 3rd birthday, the team has announced the release of jQuery v1.3, the latest and greatest release of jQuery which includes the new Sizzle selector engine.
Along with the inclusion of Sizzle, jQuery v1.3 includes a bevvy of new features:
- 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.
In addition to that, Remy Sharp donated a new dynamic API browser to the jQuery project which makes searching the jQuery API extremely easy:
The API browser includes:
- All the latest jQuery and jQuery UI documentation.
- The ability to mark pages as favorites for those pages you keep wanting to return to.
- Syntax highlighting in the code examples
- Live running of examples within the browser
- inks to edit and experiment with the code examples
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