Woo hoo, Thanksgiving arrived early this year! jQuery 1.8.3 is available for download. You can get it here: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js (compressed, for production) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.js (uncompressed, for debugging) We’ve notified the Google and Microsoft CDNs as well; we trust they will endeavor to post these files tout de suite. The complete change log for jQuery 1.8.3 is … Continue reading
With much of the East Coast bracing for the impact of Hurricane Sandy, now’s certainly a good time to take a look back on some sunnier times. Two weeks ago today, the jQuery Foundation held the first-ever jQuery Developer Summit at the Aol Campus in Dulles, Va. After a brief morning overview of our major … Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that jQuery 1.8.2 is available! This version fixes several bugs and performance regressions reported from the past couple of releases, and we think the 1.8 line is pretty solid at this point. The only way to know for sure that it works with your code is to test it–so please do! … Continue reading
jQuery UK is back for 2013! The jQuery Foundation is pleased to announce that White October are organising another jQuery UK conference in Oxford, UK on the 19th of April 2013. There is a call for papers and suggestions for speakers are also welcome. So if you want to take part, or want to see … Continue reading
Some important changes have occurred in the latest releases of several jQuery projects such as core, UI, Mobile, Sizzle, and QUnit. You may not have noticed them because they didn’t really change the actual code, documentation, or functionality. Instead, these changes were designed to clarify the ownership and licensing of the software. If you’re not … Continue reading
In nature, an ecosystem consists of the organisms, raw materials, and all of the complex interactions that shape their shared environment. The open source ecosystem is no different. Each project has its niche, and any package that is a dependency of course has dependencies of its own. jQuery is used on millions of websites, but we … Continue reading
Over the last eight months at the Foundation, we have been working to expand both the reach and breadth of our events, and we’re excited today to announce the inaugural jQuery Developer Summit, to be held October 15th and 16th, 2012 at the Aol Campus in Dulles, VA. The Developer Summit will be a departure … Continue reading
It’s been a frantic but productive few weeks, and the jQuery core team is pleased to announce that jQuery 1.8.1 is released! This version fixes the issues reported by the community following the final release of 1.8.0. Here are the files, ready for you to use: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.1.min.js (production, compressed) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.1.js (development, uncompressed) The Google and … Continue reading
Early last week I released jQuery Color 2.0.0, the wait for a jQuery Color plugin that gives you an API to work with colors is over. What’s new in jQuery Color 2.0.0? jQuery Color has faithfully supported animating colors between two hex values since the beginning. Many developers asked for access to the internal functions … Continue reading
One of the great new features in jQuery 1.8 is a built-in understanding of box-sizing: border-box which is supported by every modern browser. (Sorry, IE6 and IE7, please take one step back; I said modern browser.) If you showed people an element with a border on the screen and asked them the width of that … Continue reading