New jQuery release version 1.3
Yesterday jQuery released their new version, number 1.3. They did a lot af changes / bugfixing, performance improvements.
The big features are:
- 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.
They did a pretty good job on the performance:
Selector performance, 49% faster:
Delegation filtering performance, 30x times faster:
Element insertion performance, 6x faster:
Offset rewrite, 3x times faster:
There is also a new API browser released with the following features:
- All the latest jQuery and jQuery UI documentation.
- The ability to mark pages as favorites for those pages you keep wanting to return to.
- Syntax highlighting in the code examples
- Live running of examples within the browser
- Links to edit and experiment with the code examples
You can find it here:
http://api.jquery.com/
The new version you can download here:
Downloading jQuery
Or you can use the google hosted version:
Google AJAX Libraries API
More info:
Blog: jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery foundation
Release notes