7 - jQuery 1.4 (John Resig)

We are in Washington DC and we are all sitting face-to-face with John Resig as we talk about the jQuery 1.4 Release.

Host: Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor.

Interview

• jQuery 1.4 overview
  • Major Contributors
  • A look behind the scenes to get the release complete
  • what are the main reasons people should upgrade to 1.4?
• Performance gains overview
• New functionality overview
  • clearQueue
  • jQuery.contains
  • delay
  • detach
  • focusin & focusout
  • has
  • isEmptyObject
  • isPlainObject
  • nextUntil
  • jQuery.noop
  • parentsUntil
  • jQuery.proxy
  • toArray
  • unwrap
• Updated methods
  • Is there a common theme amongst all the updates? Performance, new options, etc?
• Plans for the future