In response to the flood of requests and emails, and our original promise to work on this, we’ve got an announcement: we’ve added a single day Beginner/Intermediate training right before the San Francisco jQuery Conference :)Tickets are on sale now (left side, below the fold). The training will be provided by our friends at Bocoup, and hosted by the ever-generous folks at Microsoft. Here’s a snippet of what Trainers Ben Alman and Rebecca Murphey will be covering:At Bocoup's intermediate one-day jQuery training, you'll work with jQuery veterans to build a foundation that will make you a stronger developer and get you prepared for all the great talks that you'll see over t...

Touch events have become a hot topic for web developers as more and more companies move into the mobile space. Most of us know that touch events support single and multi-touch tracking. Some of us know the trickiness of working with touch and mouse at the same time. Fewer know that there are multiple touch event models, and even fewer have tried to support multiple models at the same time. I'd like to talk about where we are today, how we got here, and the potential problems we may face in the future.A Brief HistoryBack in 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, and with it came touch events. Neil Roberts sums up the Apple implementation well in a SitePen article: "Though at first the APIs see...

The jQuery team is going bowling and we’d love to have you join us! We’ll be spending the evening of Friday, April 13th at King Pinz in Leesburg, VA, a bit outside of Washington, DC. We’ll have a private room with 6 lanes from 6 to 10 PM. The night will feature unlimited bowling, dinner, desserts, drinks, and billiards. There’s even a cigar bar, if you’re into that!Very limited space – get your ticket fast.BowlingPrivate room with 6 lanesUnlimited bowling (shoe rental included) for 4 hoursCozy couches with cocktail tablesKing Pinz: PhotosPrivate Room: 360 degree tourDinnerAppetizers, entrees, and dessertsAll nightDrinksOpen barAll nightBilliardsPrivate ...

jQuery 1.7.2 is looking good! The release candidate went smoothly so we’ve made only one small change and are releasing it to your eager hands today. You can get the oven-fresh code from the jQuery CDN now, with Google and Microsoft CDNs soon to follow:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js (minified, production)http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.js (unminified, debug)Note: If you’re using jQuery Mobile, please use jQuery 1.7.2 only with jQuery Mobile 1.1. For previous versions of jQuery Mobile, stay with jQuery core 1.7.1 or earlier. You can use the bug tracker to report bugs; be sure to create a test case on jsFiddle so we can figure it out easily. If you’re not s...

It’s that time of year again…time to talk about the next jQuery Conference!Mark your calendars for June 28th and 29th. By popular demand, the next jQuery Conference will be in San Francisco proper (as opposed to Mountain View), at the fantastic UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. If you haven’t been to an event there before, some highlights:Pretty much the best conference wifi we’ve ever worked withPretty much the best conference food we’ve ever eatenFree flowing coffee, sodas and drinks all day longGreat space, with comfy seating, great AV, parking, easy access to public transit, space for partying, and so on and so on and so onWe’re incredibly excited...

jQuery 1.7.2 will be arriving soon! To make sure that we’ve fixed the bugs voted “Most Likely to Annoy” without introducing any new bugs, we need your help in testing this release candidate. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2rc1.jsIt will only take a few minutes to drop in this latest file and test it with your code. If you’ve got a lot of pages, the list of fixed bugs below may be a helpful guide for determining what to test. And of course, if you reported a bug or were affected by one listed below, please re-test to be sure we fixed it for good. We’ve tested it internally against the current builds of jQuery UI and ...

(BOSTON) — The jQuery Board, in conjunction with Software Freedom Conservancy, is proud to announce the formation of the jQuery Foundation, Inc., an independent organization that will manage jQuery, the Internet’s number one JavaScript library, and its constituent projects.The jQuery Board previously administered jQuery under the aegis of the Conservancy, a public charity that acts as a non-profit home for free software projects.The new jQuery Foundation is a non-profit trade association dedicated to supporting development of the jQuery Core, UI, and Mobile projects; providing jQuery documentation and support; and fostering the jQuery community.Dave Methvin, who recently took ...

Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of six more weeks of unfixed bugs. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2b1.jsOh, we know what you’re thinking: “Cool, a new version of jQuery; I’ll wait until the final release has been out a few weeks and then I’ll give it a try.” Right, and then you’ll find some bug that keeps you from upgrading. Nothing makes us sadder than ...

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since.“Could you make the old backup available for posterity?”Yes. We can -- and have. Over the weekend, we restored the most recent backup we had, and the original site is now living at archive.plugins.jquery.com; you should be able to browse through everything that’s there to your heart’s content. We also applied the most recent user information we had, so if you had an account on the old site at any point in the last year, it should still wo...

For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some “new submission process.” This happened very suddenly, and we’re sorry to everyone who’s been inconvenienced. Please allow me a few minutes to explain what happened, where we’re headed, and how it impacts you. If you’re in a rush, here’s the short version.The Backstory Though the plugins site you’ve known and loved was a valuable tool when it was first set up, it gradually became something of a white elephant for th...

We are very happy to announce two training workshops for this years United Kingdom conference. The trainings will be given by Doug Neiner, Ralph Whitbeck and Mike Hostetler of appendTo. The general admission tickets for the conference are now sold out but you can buy conference/training bundles and still attend the conference. appendTo will be giving Introduction to jQuery and jQuery Mobile workshops. The workshops will be held on Thursday, 8 February, 2012 at the Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, UK.Introduction to jQueryjQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library for developers because of it’s easy to learn and write. This course takes students through the basics of jQuery...

We’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! This is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jQuery to make it better. You can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed description, or implementations that represent your idea. We’d like to have all your input by December 5 so we can read and discuss them before setting the 1.8 roadmap.Many thanks for the suggestions left on our earlier blog post about how we can improve jQuery by trimming it down. We’ve gone through those comments and have a few thoughts about how we can address some of them in fut...

Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week. For those of you living elsewhere in the world, it’s a time when we install and test new versions of Javascript libraries while feasting on Mom’s homemade goodies. Kind of like a code sprint, but with better food. We invite everyone worldwide to join us in these traditions.To kick off the festivities, the jQuery Team is quite thankful to be releasing version 1.7.1! In this go-round we made Pilgrim’s progress on a cornucopia of bugs, listed below. We are serving up our delicious copies on the jQuery CDN, fresh and warm from the oven:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.jshttp://code.jquery.com/j...

Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 and reported a bug, it should be fixed in this release.You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1rc1.jshttp://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1rc1.min.jsYou can help us by dropping that code into your existing application and letting us know that if anything no longer works. Please file a bug and be sure to mention that you’re testing ag...

TL;DR The body responsible for overseeing jQuery’s finances and administration, which was until today known as the jQuery Team, is now called the jQuery Board. The jQuery Team is for anyone who invests a significant amount of time contributing to jQuery and its related projects.As jQuery has grown from a cool idea in 2005 to the most widely used piece of JavaScript on the Internet today, so too has the organizational structure required to support its development and its community. Over time, e-mail chains became mailing lists, and out of those lists evolved a casual confederation known as the jQuery Team. To join this team, all you had to do was make a consistent contribution to som...