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 →

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 forgot to mention in the 1.0.2 release notes, the other day, that there was a minor API change. This was a mistake, as we should’ve held off on making an API change until the next major release (jQuery 1.1). As summarized by Steven Wittens, here is the premise behind the change: In jQuery 1.0.2, … 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 →

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 →

Cody Lindley just released a brand new version of Lightbox/Greybox called Thickbox. This release offers some great, added, functionality over the other libraries. Specifically, this release is completely unobtrusive – it uses the natural href, src, and title attributes to seed the box, when it pops up. Even if you don’t have Javascript enabled, it … Continue reading →

The new AJAX plugin for jQuery is ready – and if you’re running off of the latest code, it’s already rolled in. Along with that, there are a few new effects to be enjoyed: fadeIn, fadeOut, and center. I’ve also squished a number of bugs, which have gone into this release too: A problem with … Continue reading →