Episode 15

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Episode 15

This week Elijah and Ralph talked with John Resig about details from the recent jQuery 1.4 point releases. We also get updates on the next point releases and other features that are in the works.

Interview

• Two point releases have been released since Jan 14
• jQuery 1.4.1 
  • Features
    • Blog post
  • Notable Bugs
    • 25 bugs closed
• jQuery 1.4.2
  • Features
    • Blog post
    • Delegate/Undelegate
      • “Event Delegation with jQuery” by Brandon Aaron
      • Video of John Resig talk at the first jQuery Boston Meetup
    • Performance Improvements
      • 2x speed in the task speed test suite
    • Events Rewrite
      • “jQuery Click Outside Plugin” by Ben Alman
  • Notable Bugs
    • 40 Bugs closed
• jQuery 1.4.3
  • .bind(“click”, false) – shortcut for .bind(“click”, function() { return false; });
  • .unbind(“click”, false) – shortcut for .unbind(“click”, function() { return false; });
  • .click(false) – shortcut for .click(function() { return false; })
  • Faster jQuery Trim Forum Thread
• What is ahead for jQuery and future releases?
  • Mobile
  • Templating – Forum thread
  • Dynamic Script Loading

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