Update: The contest is now closed! I would like to thank everyone for their submissions. We’ll begin the judging process very soon. To encourage people to promote the jQuery project, and get as many people involved in the community as possible, we’re holding a contest to build a “Powered by jQuery” button. Having a nicely … Continue reading →

Mozilla just released http://www.worldfirefoxday.com/, a site to thank everyone who contributed in world firefox day 2006. The site allows users to search for friends names and they are displayed in an interesting fashion. The script is a combination of the Rotator script and some slick AutoComplete which powers the search. Start typing a name slowly … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to the previous event selector showdown comes a new Zebra Table Showdown. The Challenge: Making all tables on a page have striped (“Zebra”) backgrounds (different coloring on every odd row). The Rules: The odd/even styling should be done by adding a class for the ‘odd’ numbered table rows. This must be able … 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 →

jQuery 1.0.2 is now ready for consumption! This release is a huge bug fix release – and it is highly recommended that you upgrade right away. As always, if you spot a bug, please add it to the bug tracker. In addition to having a better test suite, a big push for this release was … Continue reading →

Leave your answers in the comments. Name (anonymous if you must) Are you using jQuery corporately or for your personal use? Describe how you are using jQuery. Showcase! Link to any of your projects that use jQuery. We would really like to get to know a lot of you better, not just the hardcore developers … Continue reading →

The first issue of the brand-new Visual jQuery magazine has been released. It is available for download in PDF format. The purpose of the Visual jQuery Magazine is to provide information about jQuery for beginners and advanced developers, interviews with interesting members of the jQuery community, and details on how to maximize your use of … Continue reading →

Excellent news today: Paul Bakaus has received sponsorship from his employer, New Identity AG, to contribute back to jQuery project. He’s being given a chunk of hours under which he is sponsored to develop jQuery-related code. All of this is going straight back in to the community. This is in addition to the fact that … Continue reading →

If you’re new to jQuery, you might not know that it has a very extensible plugin architecture. That’s not to imply that it’s a complicated one; it’s not! One of the popular features of jQuery is the built-in effects library. Using jQuery’s plugin architecture, a number of smart people have taken the built-in effects one … Continue reading →

jQuery 1.0 solidified a lot of the framework, but it also introduced some neat structural changes. First up, the framework now builds via make files, so anybody can check out jQuery from subversion and compile either the packed or unpacked jquery.js for use in their website. Second of all, jQuery now includes built-in testing, and … Continue reading →