Those of you who have been around for a while know that in September of last year I published the first issue of the Visual jQuery Magazine. In October, the magazine was also released in French.The mag had interviews with important jQuery community members (like creator John Resig, plugin editor Dave Cardwell, etc.), articles on jQuery features and implementations, and even a piece or two on alternate Javascript libraries, complete with quality graphics and original art.The positive response was incredible, and people really seemed to like it. Unfortunately, though I’d initially planned on making the magazine a monthly publication, things fell to the wayside as my schedule got progr...

I’m pleased to announce the release of jQuery 1.1.3. After many months of testing, developing, and more testing, we have a very solid release available for download. It comes with roughly 80+ fixed bugs and a handful of enhancements for good measure. 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.Update - July 4th: We just finished a quick bug fix release, versioned 1.1.3.1, which fixes a couple of outstanding issues.Download:jQuery 1.1.3.1 (Compr...

There is a good article about client-side form validation on the Interaction Design Blog. It describes important points to keep in mind when building your own framework for client-side validation.Of course the alternative to building your own framework is to use an existing one. This approach yields some important advantages, amonst them the “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” principle.Lets see how well the validation plugin currently performs on the points listed in the article:1. Use a form validation framework or a form validation libraryCheck.2. Focus on solving the big validation problemsAs soon as you start developing and implementing your validation, it is ea...

This is a quick bug fix release for jQuery 1.1.3. About six major issues popped up after the 1.1.3 release that we deemed important enough to resolve immediately, with a follow-up release. The full list of resolved issues can be found on the bug tracker.If you haven’t already upgraded to 1.1.3, please just upgrade straight to 1.1.3.1 instead. Also, if you’re encountering any issues with 1.1.3, please try this release.You can download the release from the jQuery Google Code page:Download:jQuery 1.1.3.1jQuery 1.1.3.1 (Compressed)As always, be sure to let us know if you encounter any issues by submitting a bug report to the jQuery bug tracker.

SF jQuery Meetup and Ajax Experience WestAjax Experience West 2007The good folks over at Ajaxian and TechTarget have put together a great conference, July 25-27. Speakers are varied, talking about the latest and greatest from the world of rich web development. See the full list of speakers and schedule. Speakers include BrendanEich, CTO of Mozilla; Creator of JavaScript. Chris Wilson, Internet Explorer Platform Architect and Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect, Adobe. It promises to be a lively and interesting forum.More exciting than even those speakers, there will be two jQuery representatives speaking: John Resig and Glen Lipka.John will be giving 3 sessions, two on jQuery:Introdu...

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of jQuery: jQuery 1.1.4. Barring any horrible mistakes, this release will be the last of the 1.1.x branch - leading us up to the release of jQuery 1.2 in September.You can download the release from the jQuery Google Code page:Download:jQuery 1.1.4 (Compressed, 21KB)jQuery 1.1.4 (65KB)jQuery 1.1.4 (Docs, Source Code)ImprovementsA number of improvements have gone into this release, in addition to all of the normal bug fixes.Any Name jQueryjQuery has taken a big step to become the first major JavaScript library completely capable of renaming itself. Previously, functionality was provided to rename the oft-used ‘$’ shortcut for &#...

We’re going to be having the first all-day jQuery mini-conference October 27th, here in Boston, MA. Already, a large portion of the jQuery team will be attending and giving talks - so if you’re interested in meeting some of the people who’ve helped to make jQuery possible and chatting with fellow developers, then this is a fantastic place to do it!This event will be immediately following the Ajax Experience conference. A number of people are coming to both events, generally sponsored as business travel by their employer. If you need any more details about the events in order to coordinate that, please let me know.Be sure to add yourself to the registration list so that w...

Attend jQueryCamp Boston!We’re having a free one day conference this October and most of the jQuery team will be there. Come along, ask questions, and meet the people who build the library that you love!This is a massive new release of jQuery that’s been a long time in the making - and it’s ready for your consumption!We’ve put the full jQuery 1.2 release notes on a page of it’s own, since there’s so much to dig through. REMEMBER, features were removed in 1.2, so please be sure to read the notes on how to upgrade before doing so.As always, there’s going to be bugs, so please submit them to the bug tracker and we’ll try to get them sorted out...

jQuery 1.2.1 is a bug fix release for jQuery 1.2. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker. Downloading jQuery 1.2.1: jQuery Minified (14kb with Gzipping) jQuery Packed (26kb) jQuery Regular (77kb)If you wish to checkout the full release from the Subversion repository, you can do so by following the following instructions and checking out the source from the following location: svn co http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.2.1 Important Changes Relative Animations There was a serious error in the API for the new relative animations that caused a conflict with existing animation styles. To resolve this, in order to do a relative animation, you must now use the fo...

Meet the jQuery UI team at jQueryCamp Boston!We’re having a free one day conference this October and most of the jQuery, and jQuery UI, teams will be there. Come along, ask questions, and meet the people who build the library that you love!Today we’re very pleased to announce a brand new library: jQuery UI. jQuery UI is a fully themed interaction and widget library built on top of jQuery.You’ll be able to find everything that you need to know about jQuery UI on it’s site:http://ui.jquery.com/jQuery UI signals the start of a whole new branch of the jQuery project which will focus on developing high-quality, reusable, components that you’ll be able to drop in y...

Hey guys,As many of you already know, I have been working on jQuery in Action, a book on jQuery for Manning Publishers.Almost the entire book is available on MEAP (Manning Early Access Program), and it’s going to be published in December of this year.The book itself is pretty awesome. It tries to give you the information you need with a useful narrative, including motivation for certain parts of jQuery. One of the greatest things about the book, in my humble opinion, are the labs, which allow you to test out parts of jQuery without having to throw together an entire test case. For instance, there’s a selector lab, which lets you see, visually, which elements will be selected b...

Google relaunched their Google Code site with a new design and, you guessed it, jQuery under the hood! Dion Almaer, employee at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com, discusses the redesign on his blog and makes mention to the fact that the Google team is now using jQuery for the Google Code site. DeWitt Clinton also discusses this on the Google Code Blog:For example, the search results pages use a combination of the AJAX Search API and Custom Search Engines. The homepage gadgets use the AJAX Feed API and Google Reader feeds. The videos are powered by the YouTube API, the blogs by the Blogger API, the events powered by the Google Calendar API, the metrics by Google Analytics, the forums by...

Here’s some holiday cheer: Flot, a new plotting library/plugin for jQuery by Ole Laursen. The initial 0.1 release has some stunning features, including interactivity with your charts. Flot looks very promising, and we like to highlight promising developments in the jQuery community!See also:Flot AnnouncementFlot ExamplesAjaxian article on Flot

The jQuery Plugins site had been experiencing a few issues lately. So, today I moved it to its new home, http://plugins.jquery.com.If you’ve got a plugin hosted on the jQuery Plugins site, please give your plugin a look and make sure everything is where it should be. If you have any issues, please submit them to the jQuery Plugins Website Issue Queue.

On the 2nd anniversary of jQuery’s release we’re proud to bring you a brand new release of jQuery. This is primarily a bug fix release for jQuery 1.2. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker. Downloading jQuery 1.2.2:jQuery Minified (15kb with Gzipping)jQuery Packed (28kb)jQuery Regular (93kb)If you wish to checkout the full release from the Subversion repository, you can do so by following the following instructions and checking out the source from the following location:svn co http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.2.2 Important Changes A lot of hard work was put into this release by Brandon Aaron and David Serduke. David is a new addition to the j...