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
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
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
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 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
We are very happy to announce jQuery Conference 2012: UK, the first jQuery conference in the UK, on 10th February 2012. The conference will be held at the Saïd Business School in Oxford with a line-up including six jQuery team members and four industry experts: Tickets You can read more about the line-up, talks and … Continue reading
Today, after a very scary Halloween, the jQuery team is releasing jQuery 1.7 RC2 from our Github crypt, er, repo. Barring a report of really terrifying problems or a mob of townspeople at our door with torches, this code will be exactly the same code that becomes the version 1.7 final. If anyone knows of … Continue reading
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
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
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