On the road up to 1.0 there is one thing, that we’ve been lacking in, that we need more of: Lots of jQuery bloggers! With my commitment to squishing bugs in the jQuery core, adding new features, writing documentation – I just don’t have time to keep the blog updated with all the hot new … Continue reading →

I would like to take this opportunity to announce the first release of jQuery 1.0 (dubbed jquery-1.0a). This new 1.0 release is designed to be completely comprehensive, small-sized, and bug free. It will be supported for a very long time, into the foreseeable future. (This is NOT the final release of 1.0, that will be … Continue reading →

I wanted to give everyone an update as to the progress that’s been made (and being made) on jQuery right now. A bunch of us have been working very hard on getting jQuery squared away for a proper 1.0 release. In order to achieve this goal, I wanted a couple things done: Cutting down the … Continue reading →

Following in the footsteps of the excellent Yahoo! UI Tetris by Dustin Diaz comes jQuery Tetris. This Javascript implementation of Tetris, written by Franck Marcia, comes in at only about 5.8kb, compared to Dustin’s 30kb for YUI Tetris. This is a great example of the short code that’s possible using jQuery, while still making something … Continue reading →

I’ve slowly been moving jQuery over to SVN during the past month, with the move being nearly complete now. So, if you wish to keep track of jQuery through Subversion (and make sure you always have the latest code), you can do so via: The jQuery SVN Web Interface (This will probably soon change to … Continue reading →

Mark Constable has created an excellent, and well-documented, resource for some interesting advanced jQuery Examples. The examples range from the simple (such as fading text in and out) to the complex (such as live searching or input field focusing). All of the examples are fully documented, which makes this a great place to learn some … Continue reading →

jQuery is now available, exclusively, under the MIT License. This license is much more open than the previous Creative Commons license used (and much better suited to software development). In a nutshell, for those not familiar with the MIT License, it’s about as free as you can get without actually putting something in the public … Continue reading →

An amazing new jQuery resource has just arrived: 15 Days of jQuery. It’s a new site run by Jack Born, devoted to providing simple tutorials for getting you started using jQuery. Jack created this site after using jQuery in his projects: I consider [jQuery] the Swiss Army knife of Javascript – it’s small, versatile, and … Continue reading →

Simple Challenge: Find all the LI elements underneath two different elements (using their #ID as reference) and bind a click handler which changes the color of the LI’s text. Here is how you would do that in all of the popular event/selector libraries. Behaviour + Prototype Behaviour.register({ ‘#item li’: function(element) { Event.observe(element, ‘click’, function(event) { … Continue reading →

Recently Plazes (a popular geolocation web application) put up a redesign of their service. If you take a peek at how it’s doing it’s cool effects, underneath the hood, you’ll see that it’s making good use of jQuery. The best place to see it in action is on the Plazes People page. The purpose of … Continue reading →