Getting Board of jQuery

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TL;DR The body responsible for overseeing jQuery’s finances and administration, which was until today known as the jQuery Team, is now called the jQuery Board. The jQuery Team is for anyone who invests a significant amount of time contributing to jQuery and its related projects. As jQuery has grown from a cool idea in 2005 … Continue reading

jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released

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Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 … Continue reading

Upcoming jQuery Events

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jQuery Summit 2011 It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code … Continue reading

Building a Slimmer jQuery

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jQuery is more than five years old now! Over that time it has evolved along with the browsers, web sites, devices, developers, and users that it serves. It has also, um, grown quite a bit over that time. jQuery has added a lot of useful features, but it’s also accumulated cruft that we’d prefer not … Continue reading

jQuery 1.7 Released

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jQuery 1.7 is ready for download! You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js This new release should also be available on the Google and Microsoft CDNs within a day or two. Thanks to your help in testing and reporting bugs during the beta period, we believe we have a solid, stable … Continue reading

jQuery 1.7 RC1 Released

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The team is getting closer to jQuery 1.7, and today we’re putting out a release candidate. The full list of fixes and features can be found below. We urge everyone to start testing this code in their applications, so we can make sure that there are no major problems before the final release. Testing couldn’t … Continue reading

Announcing The jQuery Standards Team

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Today we’re happy to announce the creation of a new jQuery sub-team called the jQuery Standards Team to give web developers a voice in the standards process. Introduction We all know that web standards are important. They help ensure the code we write works across different technologies, for people of different abilities and most importantly … Continue reading

jQuery 1.7 Beta 2 Released

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Hot off the momentum of the jQuery Conference in Boston earlier this month, and based on the community’s valuable feedback, we’re releasing a new beta that incorporates further fixes and improves stability. The full list of fixes and features can be found below. We urge everyone to start testing this code in their applications, so … Continue reading