jqueryWe waiting a long time to see jQuery 1.3 version, and finally it is here. Now jQuery using new selector engine called Sizzle, which is 4% faster then previous engine.

What is new ?

jQuery 1.3 supports Live Events. This means that events now can be bound to all currend and future (just created) HTML elements.

Live Events example

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    $("p").live("click", function(){
      $(this).after("<p>Another paragraph!</p>");
    });

HTML injection methods like append, prepend, before, and after has been overhauled. You can use this methonds like before, but you will see that they are much faster, about 6 times faster! Also hide() and show() methods are faster about 2.5 times. Wow speed is great reason to use this improved javascript library. Read the rest of this entry »