Published on 2007-07-02 08:56:20
Today jQuery team released a speedy version 1.1.3 of the jQuery JavaScript library. The new release come with more than 80 bugfixes and 800%+ of speed improvements, in addition to some new features and enhancements. Highlights include:
- Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2.
- A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events.
- A re-written effects system (with an accompanying fx test suite), featuring faster execution and better cross-platform support.
There are more enhancements planned for the next releases of jQuery. jQuery 1.1.4 is already planned for the end of July, and it will be the last release of the jQuery 1.1 branch. The next generation of jQuery will begin with the 1.2 release, planned for late August, and it will include more new features and enhancements as you can read in the 1.2 Roadmap.
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