Only 3 years after its release John Resig’s JavaScript library JScript is ha been become one of the most influential frameworks for developing JavaScript. Today the JavaScript library turns 3 year old which considering its adoption rate and the fact that even Microsoft has adopted it into it internal development platform is huge.
Here are the updates
- 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.
Top that off with a new api browser developed by Remy Sharp, available at: http://api.jquery.com/.
The details of the release can be found via the release notes.
The API browser includes:
- 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 7
Happy B-Day!