jQuery 1.3 released

Saturday 17th January 2009

On 14th January jQuery released version 1.3 of their popular JavaScript framework which includes a host of new features including:

  • Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine.
  • Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
  • jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
  • HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
  • Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
  • No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.

I have already used the new live events feature and it works perfectly.

jQuery are releasing Sizzle as a standalone project and have already handed over the source code to the Dojo Foundation. This is great news as looking at the stats this new selector engine is much faster than all the other frameworks’ efforts.

Full announcement here.
Release notes here.

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