jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 — TL;DR Edition

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It seems that many people had questions and misconceptions about the last post, so let’s try a short Q&A format to answer some of the comments left there. Why is the jQuery core team dropping support for oldIE (IE 6/7/8)? We’re not! jQuery 1.9 will support oldIE when it’s released next year. The jQuery team … Continue reading

jQuery Core: Version 1.9 and Beyond

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Please check out the followup post before jumping to the wrong conclusion. As the last blog post discussed, jQuery version 1.8 is undergoing a spring cleaning to remove insecure, inefficient, ineffective, and inadvisable features. We’ve also begun the work to allow you to build custom versions that exclude parts of the library for even greater … Continue reading

jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released

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Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 … Continue reading

Building a Slimmer jQuery

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jQuery is more than five years old now! Over that time it has evolved along with the browsers, web sites, devices, developers, and users that it serves. It has also, um, grown quite a bit over that time. jQuery has added a lot of useful features, but it’s also accumulated cruft that we’d prefer not … Continue reading

jQuery 1.7 Released

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jQuery 1.7 is ready for download! You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js This new release should also be available on the Google and Microsoft CDNs within a day or two. Thanks to your help in testing and reporting bugs during the beta period, we believe we have a solid, stable … Continue reading

Announcing The jQuery Standards Team

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Today we’re happy to announce the creation of a new jQuery sub-team called the jQuery Standards Team to give web developers a voice in the standards process. Introduction We all know that web standards are important. They help ensure the code we write works across different technologies, for people of different abilities and most importantly … Continue reading

jQuery 1.6.4 Released

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jQuery 1.6.4 Released This is a minor point release of jQuery. We’re releasing it fix a couple issues that came up during the release of jQuery 1.6.3. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.4.js You can help us by dropping that code into your existing application and letting us know that if … Continue reading

jQuery 1.6.3 Released

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jQuery 1.6.3 is now out! This is the third minor release on top of jQuery 1.6 and lands a number of fixes for bugs, as listed below. As usual, we provide two copies of jQuery, one minified and one uncompressed (for debugging or reading). jQuery 1.6.3 Minified jQuery 1.6.3 Uncompressed You can help us by … Continue reading

jQuery 1.6.2 Released

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jQuery 1.6.2 Released jQuery 1.6.2 is now out! This is the second minor release on top of jQuery 1.6 and lands a number of fixes for bugs. As usual, we provide two copies of jQuery, one minified and one uncompressed (for debugging or reading). jQuery Minified (for production) jQuery Regular (for development and testing) You … Continue reading