Hey guys! I have a great announcement to make. jQuery, the awesome javascript framework turned 3 years old today. Thanks to John Resig, who actually started this as a side project, we now have one of the best Open Source Software available. With this release, there are many new features, including:
- Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine.
- Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
- jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
- HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
- Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
- No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.
You can find more information on the jQuery Blog, here.
For anyone interested in Javascript and possibly jQuery, I created a nice little plugin that allows you to insert scripts (JS, CSS, etc…) and other data into the header whenever you want. More than likely, you will be using this to insert stuff right after the page loads. By removing your scripts and inserting them after the page finish lets your browser load it faster by loading the necessary objects first. For those thinking about the defer attribute in html script tags, IT DOESN’T WORK!!
The bad thing about defer is that you cannot use document.write in a tag that uses this. Also, not all browsers support this. It was just added to Firefox 3.1, so you could only imagine.
If you want to find the script, you can do so here.