Note: Jack went ahead and fixed virtually everything mentioned in this post – great job! We’ve been holding off on talking about the speed of the jQuery selectors for the new 1.1 release until our release was closer to being ready – however, it seems as if that process has already been expedited. So with … Continue reading →

We’re nearly ready for the big 1.1 release, this Sunday – but to hold you over, here’s another set of bug fixes to test upon. The jQuery dev team has been working long-and-hard to fix all the support requests that’ve been coming in this week, and we’ve been pretty successful in fixing just about everything … Continue reading →

As previously announced, today we’re bringing you the alpha release of jQuery 1.1. We’d really appreciate it if you could help us test this alpha, so that we can have a stand-up release this weekend – just in time for jQuery’s 1 Year Anniversary! (January 14th) This is going to be a fantastic release. In … Continue reading →

Just a quick update so that everyone knows what’s going on: The jQuery Dev Team is currently working on the upcoming 1.1 release of jQuery. So SVN is going to be changing rather significantly during the next couple weeks. Here’s the current game plan: jQuery 1.1a January 7th – A quick alpha release to help … Continue reading →

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce everyone to the people behind jQuery. Not enough has been said about who works for the project and what they do to help out. This fact, combined with a recent re-organization, makes for the perfect time to show you how jQuery works, behind the scenes. jQuery … Continue reading →

Some recent articles have discussed the need for having “really good” tutorials for JavaScript libraries. As always, we’re working to make the jQuery documentation better and more useful, so I want to pose the following question: What are some tutorials that would help you better use or learn jQuery? Make sure it’s something simple (like … Continue reading →

Another fantastic release of jQuery is ready for your consumption. This release includes a number of bug fixes (as usual) along with some much-needed improvements to jQuery’s Ajax functionality. As always, if you have any questions or concerns with new release, please feel free to discuss it on the jQuery Mailing List. If you think … Continue reading →

This is the first (of hopefully many) screencasts that will provide a quick tutorial to a simple demo of jQuery in action. I plan on doing at least 2-3 more based upon the talks that I’ve given lately – hopefully I can trickle those out over the next week(s) or so. (Oh, and sorry if … Continue reading →

The votes are in! Here are the winners of the jQuery Button Contest: The Winners First Place Prize (93 votes): Two Books – Ajax Design Patterns and John Resig’s upcoming Pro JavaScript Techniques Ned Collyer, Australia: HTML: (Copy this into your web site to use this button) Second Place Prize (83 votes): One Book – … Continue reading →

Voting is now closed! Thanks, everyone, for your input! The results can be found here: jQuery Button Contest Winners. The next round of the jQuery Button Contest is upon us! After some careful deliberation, the judges have narrowed the playing field of 123 jQuery button submissions down to just 30. We were completely overwhelmed with … Continue reading →