January 17th, 2009jQuery 1.3 improved and faster

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 »

I tried few Rich Text Editors like FCKeditor or TinyMCE, they helped but they have some anomalies, they add extra html code and sometimes you just want more quality.

The 37signals announced new open source JavaScript rich text editor based on WYSIWYG JavaScript framework called WysiHat. This is very early developer release, and it provides extensible foundation to design your own design for text editor. Witth few lines of code, we can run the WysiHat editor. The 37signas let us the customize it by our need, so this is for developers who want to develop own rich editor, and WysiHat can be groundwork. Read the rest of this entry »


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