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Events

Bowling for jQuery – April 2012, Washington, D.C.

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The jQuery team is going bowling and we’d love to have you join us! We’ll be spending the evening of Friday, April 13th at King Pinz in Leesburg, VA, a bit outside of Washington, DC. We’ll have a private room with 6 lanes from 6 to 10 PM. The night will feature unlimited bowling, dinner, desserts, drinks, and billiards. There’s even a cigar bar, if you’re into that!

King Pinz

Very limited space – get your ticket fast.

Bowling

  • Private room with 6 lanes
  • Unlimited bowling (shoe rental included) for 4 hours
  • Cozy couches with cocktail tables
  • King Pinz: Photos
  • Private Room: 360 degree tour

Dinner

  • Appetizers, entrees, and desserts
  • All night

Drinks

  • Open bar
  • All night

Billiards

  • Private billiards table and lounge area

Cigar Bar

Prizes

  • 1 winner gets a copy of Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection 5.5 (a $2,600 value)
    Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection 5.5
    Thanks Adobe.
  • There will be other prizes as well. Cool prizes. Must be present to win.

Who will be there?

  • Dave Methvin
  • Yehuda Katz
  • Leah Silber
  • Rick Waldron
  • Karl Swedberg
  • Adam J. Sontag
  • Scott González
  • Dan Heberden
  • Richard D. Worth
  • Corey Frang
  • Kris Borchers
  • You?

Sponsors

Please join us in thanking our thouroughly awesome sponsors for this event:

 

CustomInk Design T-shirts Online

 

Bocoup - Open Web Technology by and for programmers

 

Adobe

 

Fluidhire - Innovative Technology and New Media Recruiting

 

MoDevUX

 

We know you love jQuery and we love you for showing it.

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jQuery 1.7.2 Released

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jQuery 1.7.2 is looking good! The release candidate went smoothly so we’ve made only one small change and are releasing it to your eager hands today. You can get the oven-fresh code from the jQuery CDN now, with Google and Microsoft CDNs soon to follow:

Note: If you’re using jQuery Mobile, please use jQuery 1.7.2 only with jQuery Mobile 1.1. For previous versions of jQuery Mobile, stay with jQuery core 1.7.1 or earlier.

You can use the bug tracker to report bugs; be sure to create a test case on jsFiddle so we can figure it out easily. If you’re not sure it’s a bug, ask on our forum or on StackOverflow. Please don’t use the blog comments below to report bugs.

As always, this release wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of many people. First, the jQuery Core Team: gnarf, jaubourg, mikesherov, rwldrn, and timmywil. The support of the jQuery UI, Mobile, and Infrastructure teams was greatly appreciated as well, especially danheberden’s valiant struggle against Trac.

Community members like adebree, caii, cmc3cn, KYSergey, mathiasbynens, miskith, MrMamen, Orkel, pasky, SineSwiper, tavelli, and vlazar pitched in by reporting, verifying, and fixing bugs. Special jQuery Gold Leaf Cluster thanks to gibson042 and sindresorhus for their work in making 1.7.2 a great release. Don’t let these people have all the fun! If you’d like to contribute to the web’s most popular Javascript library, hop onto #jquery-dev on IRC or the Developing jQuery Core section on our forum and say hello!

Many thanks to Louis-Rémi Babé, who submitted a patch to fix a regression with negative margin animations a mere 30 minutes before the release!

jQuery 1.7.2 Change Log

Here’s the change log of the 1.7.2 release.

Ajax

  • #4624: Charset in default ajaxSettings.contentType
  • #10978: jQuery.param() should allow non-native constructed objects as property values
  • #11264: evalScript() uses defaults set by ajaxSetup()
  • #11426: jQuery.ajax() always fails when requesting JPG images in IE

Attributes

  • #5571: Allow chaining when passing undefined to any setter in jQuery
  • #10828: attr(“coords”) returns undefined in IE7
  • #10870: Incorrect behaviour of $.removeAttr(“selected”)
  • #11316: Consider looking through valHooks by element type first, then by nodeName instead of the other way around

Build

  • #10692: Configure the jshint options to more accurately match the style guide
  • #10693: generalize the “test something in an iframe” code in unit tests
  • #10901: have unit tests fail if the tester is running from file:// or doesn’t have PHP
  • #10902: ability to test a built version of jQuery in unit tests
  • #10931: Unit tests shouldn’t require internet access

Core

  • #10466: jQuery.param() mistakes wrapped primitives for deep objects

Css

  • #10639: outerWidth(true) and css(‘margin’) returning % instead of px in Webkit
  • #10754: have jQuery.swap return the return of the callback instead of just executing it
  • #10782: Incorrect calculating width
  • #10796: Bug in IE7 with $(‘#el’).css.(‘background-position’)
  • #10858: css.js regular expressions are incomplete
  • #11119: The curCSS function only need 2 arguments

Data

  • #11309: hexadecimal-formatted data-* attributes parsed incorrectly

Deferred

  • #11306: calling .disable() or .lock() on a $.Callbacks object breaks its fired() status

Dimensions

  • #3838: $(document).height() incorrect in IE6

Effects

  • #8498: Animate Hooks
  • #10006: method show is not working as expected in all browsers when called for document fragment
  • #10848: Animation toggling loses state tracking in certain atomic edge cases
  • #11415: Silently ignore negative CSS values where they are illegal
  • #11469: Negative margin in animations (.animate)

Event

  • #8165: .live(‘click’, handler) fires on disabled buttons with child elements in Chrome
  • #10819: Eliminate “this.on.call(this, “
  • #10878: $(“select”).live(“change”, function(){ …broken in IE8 in jQuery 1.7
  • #10961: Error in XRegExp using jQuery 1.7.1 in IE6-9
  • #10970: The .on() selector parameter doesn’t work with :not(:first) selector
  • #10984: Cannot off() custom events ($.event.special)
  • #11021: Hover hack mangles a namespace named “hover”
  • #11076: .clone(true) loses delegation filters
  • #11130: jQuery.fn.on: binding map with null selector ignores data
  • #11145: $(document).on() not working with name=”disabled”

Manipulation

  • #9427: Passing undefined to .text() does not trigger setter
  • #10753: inline the evalScript function in manipulation.js as it’s only used once
  • #10864: text() method on a document fragment always returns the empty string
  • #11055: Update HTML5 Shim elements list to support latest html5shiv
  • #11217: Append problem with webkit
  • #11291: Cloning XMLDoc’s with HTML5 nodeName’s breaks on IE
  • #11323: script tags with type=”text/ecmascript” leak into the DOM
  • #11356: safeFragment memory leak

Misc

  • #10952: .fired() doesn’t work on Callbacks object when it is flagged with “once”
  • #11257: Wrong path to source files in test suite if PHP missing

Queue

  • #10967: .promise() does not attach methods onto target

Support

  • #7986: Bug in $.support.boxModel if page has DIV-element CSS
  • #11048: Support Tests affect layout for positioned elements in IE6-9
  • #11337: Bug in $.support.reliableMarginRight

Traversing

  • #11370: $(‘<div>’).siblings() throws exception
Events

Announcing the 2012 San Francisco jQuery Conference!

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It’s that time of year again…time to talk about the next jQuery Conference!

Mark your calendars for June 28th and 29th. By popular demand, the next jQuery Conference will be in San Francisco proper (as opposed to Mountain View), at the fantastic UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. If you haven’t been to an event there before, some highlights:

  • Pretty much the best conference wifi we’ve ever worked with
  • Pretty much the best conference food we’ve ever eaten
  • Free flowing coffee, sodas and drinks all day long
  • Great space, with comfy seating, great AV, parking, easy access to public transit, space for partying, and so on and so on and so on

We’re incredibly excited about the new space, and about the way the 2012 SF show is shaping up! We’re going slightly smaller and single track this year too, so things are a bit simplified, a lot more intimate, and there’s less general shuffling about. Registration is open now, and space is extremely limited. Tickets have sold out pretty quickly in the past, and there are about 150 tickets less than last time!

Call for Proposals

We’ve opened a call for speaking proposals, which will remain open until May 13th. We encourage any and all to apply. In fact, we’re borrowing a page from JSConf’s playbook this year and doing an “inverted” call:  you’re encouraged to nominate your dream speaker (or anyone else) for a speaking slot on the subject of your choice. Of course, you’re welcome to nominate yourself!  We love to spice it up with new speakers, new topics, and pretty much whatever you can think of. Submit a proposal now!

Sponsors

Conferences are expensive. So is running an open source project. We couldn’t do any of it without your help and support… so listen up! If you work for a company that’s hiring, a company that wants some developer publicity, or a company looking to help out and give back to the community, send them our way. Take a look at the conference prospectus if you (or your bosses) are feeling generous :) Sponsorship benefits and mega karma points are both up for grabs…

Training

We’re still on the lookout for a space for training in SF on Wednesday, June 27th. If your company has a space, or you have an idea for a venue, please shoot us an email, and we’ll be eternally grateful.

That’s it for today, folks. Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements about speakers, sponsors, training days and all varieties of miscellany. We’ll also be updating the conference site with things like venue details and after parties, so keep an eye on that one too. Lastly, as always, if you’ve got questions or comments, reach out or leave a note here.

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jQuery 1.7.2 RC1 Released

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jQuery 1.7.2 will be arriving soon! To make sure that we’ve fixed the bugs voted “Most Likely to Annoy” without introducing any new bugs, we need your help in testing this release candidate. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:

It will only take a few minutes to drop in this latest file and test it with your code. If you’ve got a lot of pages, the list of fixed bugs below may be a helpful guide for determining what to test. And of course, if you reported a bug or were affected by one listed below, please re-test to be sure we fixed it for good. We’ve tested it internally against the current builds of jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile. There is one compatibility issue with jQuery Mobile 1.1 RC1 that has already been fixed and will be addressed by their next release.

Looking for an even easier way to test your web site with the latest jQuery? On Windows you can use the excellent Fiddler tool and create an AutoResponder rule to point your HTTP script requests for jQuery to the file location above. Then you are testing your live web site with the latest jQuery on your PC, without having to edit any files at all! If you know of similar tools for other platforms, leave a message in the comments below.

If you are particularly interested in IE6 support, please help us out. We are having sporadic trouble running the unit tests in IE6. It hasn’t been possible for us to determine the cause of these problems, but the problem doesn’t happen consistently and the sheer size of our test suite may just be overwhelming a browser that is more than a decade old. If you observe any reproducible failures in real code, please let us know and try to provide the smallest possible test case.

You can use the bug tracker to report bugs; be sure to create a test case on jsFiddle so we can figure it out easily. If you’re not sure it’s a bug, ask on our forum or on StackOverflow. Please don’t use the blog comments below to report bugs.

jQuery 1.7.2rc1 Change Log

Here’s the current change log of the 1.7.2rc1 release.

Ajax

  • #4624: Charset in default ajaxSettings.contentType
  • #10978: jQuery.param() should allow non-native constructed objects as property values
  • #11264: evalScript() uses defaults set by ajaxSetup()
  • #11426: jQuery.ajax() always fails when requesting JPG images in IE

Attributes

  • #5571: Allow chaining when passing undefined to any setter in jQuery
  • #10828: attr(“coords”) returns undefined in IE7
  • #10870: Incorrect behaviour of $.removeAttr(“selected”)
  • #11316: Consider looking through valHooks by element type first, then by nodeName instead of the other way around

Build

  • #10692: Configure the jshint options to more accurately match the style guide
  • #10693: generalize the “test something in an iframe” code in unit tests
  • #10901: have unit tests fail if the tester is running from file:// or doesn’t have PHP
  • #10902: ability to test a built version of jQuery in unit tests
  • #10931: Unit tests shouldn’t require internet access

Core

  • #10466: jQuery.param() mistakes wrapped primitives for deep objects

Css

  • #10639: outerWidth(true) and css(‘margin’) returning % instead of px in Webkit
  • #10754: have jQuery.swap return the return of the callback instead of just executing it
  • #10782: Incorrect calculating width
  • #10796: Bug in IE7 with $(‘#el’).css.(‘background-position’)
  • #10858: css.js regular expressions are incomplete
  • #11119: The curCSS function only need 2 arguments

Data

  • #11309: hexadecimal-formatted data-* attributes parsed incorrectly

Deferred

  • #11306: calling .disable() or .lock() on a $.Callbacks object breaks its fired() status

Dimensions

  • #3838: $(document).height() incorrect in IE6

Effects

  • #8498: Animate Hooks
  • #10006: method show is not working as expected in all browsers when called for document fragment
  • #10848: Animation toggling loses state tracking in certain atomic edge cases
  • #11415: Silently ignore negative CSS values where they are illegal

Event

  • #8165: .live(‘click’, handler) fires on disabled buttons with child elements in Chrome
  • #10819: Eliminate “this.on.call(this, “
  • #10878: $(“select”).live(“change”, function(){ …broken in IE8 in jQuery 1.7
  • #10961: Error in XRegExp using jQuery 1.7.1 in IE6-9
  • #10970: The .on() selector parameter doesn’t work with :not(:first) selector
  • #10984: Cannot off() custom events ($.event.special)
  • #11021: Hover hack mangles a namespace named “hover”
  • #11076: .clone(true) loses delegation filters
  • #11130: jQuery.fn.on: binding map with null selector ignores data
  • #11145: $(document).on() not working with name=”disabled”

Manipulation

  • #9427: Passing undefined to .text() does not trigger setter
  • #10753: inline the evalScript function in manipulation.js as it’s only used once
  • #10864: text() method on a document fragment always returns the empty string
  • #11055: Update HTML5 Shim elements list to support latest html5shiv
  • #11217: Append problem with webkit
  • #11291: Cloning XMLDoc’s with HTML5 nodeName’s breaks on IE
  • #11323: script tags with type=”text/ecmascript” leak into the DOM
  • #11356: safeFragment memory leak

Misc

  • #10952: .fired() doesn’t work on Callbacks object when it is flagged with “once”
  • #11257: Wrong path to source files in test suite if PHP missing

Queue

  • #10967: .promise() does not attach methods onto target

Support

  • #7986: Bug in $.support.boxModel if page has DIV-element CSS
  • #11048: Support Tests affect layout for positioned elements in IE6-9
  • #11337: Bug in $.support.reliableMarginRight

Traversing

  • #11370: $(‘<div>’).siblings() throws exception
Foundation

Announcing the jQuery Foundation

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(BOSTON) — The jQuery Board, in conjunction with Software Freedom Conservancy, is proud to announce the formation of the jQuery Foundation, Inc., an independent organization that will manage jQuery, the Internet’s number one JavaScript library, and its constituent projects.

The jQuery Board previously administered jQuery under the aegis of the Conservancy, a public charity that acts as a non-profit home for free software projects.

The new jQuery Foundation is a non-profit trade association dedicated to supporting development of the jQuery Core, UI, and Mobile projects; providing jQuery documentation and support; and fostering the jQuery community.

Dave Methvin, who recently took over as the head of the jQuery Core development team, will also serve as the Foundation’s President. “jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library, and creating an autonomous organization is the next step in ensuring its future development and benefiting everyone who uses jQuery,” said Methvin. “We’ll be announcing several initiatives shortly, including the next jQuery Conference and other efforts driven by needs within the community and the project.”

“I’m extremely excited to see the jQuery Foundation springing to life. I’m glad that Dave Methvin is leading the foundation and the direction of the core library. He’s a good friend and exceedingly capable of moving jQuery forward,” said John Resig, who created the library in 2005. “Meanwhile, I’ve been spending more time focusing on improving the state of JavaScript and programming education at Khan Academy. I’m psyched to be a part of the jQuery core team and Foundation and can’t wait to see how jQuery grows in the upcoming years.”

“We are proud that the jQuery Board has built jQuery into a vibrant and successful Open Source community under Conservancy’s mentorship,” said Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. “Our mission includes helping member projects determine whether to form their own organization, and we’re pleased jQuery is the first Conservancy project to take that step.”

The jQuery Foundation would like to thank Joel G. Kinney of Fort Point Legal, whose generous pro-bono counsel has been invaluable in transitioning to an independent organization. The Foundation is also proud to accept an honorary first donation from the Linux Fund, which has chosen to continue its tradition of supporting the open source community with a contribution to the Foundation’s inaugural operating expense budget.

About jQuery
Created in 2005 by John Resig as a JavaScript library to provide an intuitive approach for working with the DOM and Ajax, jQuery has steadily gained popularity among the development community and is the most widely-adopted JavaScript library in use today.

About the jQuery Foundation
The jQuery Foundation is a non-profit trade association and the home of jQuery, the Internet’s number one JavaScript library.  Founded by a group of leading JavaScript developers and architects, the jQuery Foundation is dedicated to three goals:  supporting development of the jQuery Core, UI, and Mobile projects; providing jQuery documentation and support; and fostering the jQuery community.

jQuery Foundation, Inc. is a Delaware non-profit currently seeking IRS 501(c)(6) status.  Donations to the jQuery Foundation will be used to further the goals of the Foundation.  For more information, visit http://jquery.org.

About Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop and defend Free, Libre and Open Source software projects.  Conservancy is a home to twenty-eight software projects, each supported by a dedicated community of volunteers, developers, and users.  Conservancy’s projects include some of the most widely used software systems in the world across many application areas, including educational software deployed in schools around the globe, embedded software systems deployed in most consumer electronic devices, distributed version control developer tools, integrated library services systems, and widely used graphics and art programs.  A full list of Conservancy’s projects can be found at http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/.  Conservancy provides to these projects the necessary infrastructure and not-for-profit support services to enable the project’s communities to focus on what they do best: creating innovative software and advancing computing for the public’s benefit.