By: Michal Golebiowski-Owczarek, Felix Nagel, and the jQuery team Editor’s Note: the following blog post was originally published to the OpenJS Foundation Blog. jQuery maintainers are continuing to modernize its overall project that still is one of the most widely deployed JavaScript libraries today. The team announced that the cross-platform jQuery Mobile project under its … Continue reading
As most of you are likely aware by now, a potentially dangerous security vulnerability was highlighted recently in the use of npm modules in your projects. In general, the jQuery Foundation still believes this is a safe and very powerful practice and in no way are we saying you should no longer use npm for … Continue reading
We’re excited to announce that the Pointer Events specification has become a W3C Recommendation! As we’ve said before, we love Pointer Events because they support all of the common input devices today – mouse, pen/stylus, and fingers – but they’re also designed in such a way that future devices can easily be added, and existing … Continue reading
jQuery UK will take place on March 6, 2015 in Oxford, UK. This event is organised by White October Events with support from the jQuery Foundation. jQuery UK is the UK’s largest front-end developer conference. Now in its fourth year, two packed tracks will feature the biggest names in front-end, including Bootstrap creator Mark Otto, Standardista … Continue reading
During the last two weeks of September, we found our way into the headlines due to a series of attacks on our web servers. Today, we wanted to give everyone a brief update on the status of our websites and a recap of what happened over the last two weeks. jQuery Under Siege Early on … Continue reading
Today at 11:15AM EDT, the jQuery Infrastructure team received widespread reports and confirmed a compromise of jquery.com. This attack was aimed at defacing our sites, and did not inject malware like the attack that was reported on September 18th by RiskIQ. We believe that these are separate incidents that may have used the same attack … Continue reading
Lastest update on the compromise: Update on jQuery.com Compromises Earlier today, RiskIQ published a blog post stating that the jQuery.com web servers were compromised and serving the RIG exploit kit for a short period of time on the afternoon of September 18th. Our internal investigation into our servers and logs have not yet found the … Continue reading
With just over a month until we set forth for the Windy City for the first jQuery Conference in Chicago, the moment’s opportune to bring you up to speed on what we’ve got in store for you this September! Whatchu Talkin’ Bout? Our speakers and talks are the highlight of any jQuery conference; our lineup … Continue reading
The other day, we posted about our new content workflow, but we didn’t get into how all that content is actually served. Believe it or not, jQuery doesn’t just run on jQuery. The servers The servers themselves are hosted at Media Temple. We have been using their VPS services for many years to host all … Continue reading
Maintaining an open source project as big as jQuery requires the use of various software and services. Two of the products we rely on and enjoy the most are GitHub and WordPress. We’ve been using and loving Git and GitHub for years now. The community collaboration has been phenomenal. We’ve seen a massive uptick in … Continue reading