I’m pleased to announce the release of jQuery 1.1.3. After many months of testing, developing, and more testing, we have a very solid release available for download. It comes with roughly 80+ fixed bugs and a handful of enhancements for good measure. Highlights include: Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2. … Continue reading
Those of you who have been around for a while know that in September of last year I published the first issue of the Visual jQuery Magazine. In October, the magazine was also released in French. The mag had interviews with important jQuery community members (like creator John Resig, plugin editor Dave Cardwell, etc.), articles … Continue reading
One of the great aspects of jQuery is its extensibility, as evidenced by the many excellent plugins that have been developed for it. The jQuery team, and the Web team in particular, have been working hard behind the scenes to put together a repository to showcase these plugins. The new repository comes with a few … Continue reading
Bertrand Gugger Last night, Bertrand Gugger, an active member of the jQuery community (toggg on #jquery) and frequent contributor of French jQuery articles and translations, passed away. He was an active contributor to a number of Open Source projects (English) including PEAR PHP and SPIP (a PHP-based CMS). His generosity, caring, and humor will be … Continue reading
NOTE The venue for this event has changed! We’re now meeting at the Best Western Bergère Opéra, please change your plans accordingly. When: Sunday, June 24, 2007 – 10:30 AM Where: Best Western Bergère Opéra 32, Rue Bergère Paris, ÃŽle-de-France 75009 (Google Maps Directions) About: This is a meet up for those that use and … Continue reading
Update: I have completely refactored jcheat and added substantial new functionality, including a ton of filters that can be used in any combination. Do a gem update and run jcheat -h for full usage details. I released a new tool, jquery-cheat, that allows you to get information about the jQuery API directly from the command-line. … Continue reading
Ryan Dunphey has just released a brand new jQuery Dashboard Widget that you can use to browse the jQuery API, even when you’re not connected to the Internet. You can download the, sharply designed, widget from jQuery SVN. If you’re interested in doing some dashboard development (and especially widget development using jQuery), you can learn … Continue reading
The jQuery services are mostly back to normal now, John has since moved the jQuery SVN to Google Code and is working to move the remaining mailing lists to Google Groups. So, the most important parts have weathered the recent server move, no problem. Of course, moving providers when a dedicated server is required usually … Continue reading
A test build of the upcoming 1.1.3 release is ready for everyone to try. We need to be super-sure that there haven’t been any regressions in this release, and in order to do that we’d like you to download this alpha release and try it in place of jQuery 1.1.2 (wherever you may be using … Continue reading
I’m happy to announce that my proposal for a Birds of a Feather session about “jQuery on Rails” at RailsConf has been accepted! If you’re at RailsConf, please come by room c125 on Thursday night at 9:30pm and join in the discussion. I’ll be chatting about my ongoing work on jQuery on Rails, and should … Continue reading