One of my favorite javascript frameworks has a new release, version 1.2.2. I’ve only had the chance to play around with it briefly and only scratched the surface of everything it offers, but I was very impressed.

“You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the time you are done it’s down to two or three lines and it couldn’t get any shorter unless it read your mind.” - Dave Methvin

The major changes are:

  • 300% Speed Improvements to $(DOMElement)
  • .ready() Overhaul: Uses Diego Perini’s non-document.write() technique, now wait for CSS to be ready, can now watch for the document ready event via the traditional .bind()
  • .bind(”mouseenter”) / .bind(”mouseleave”)
  • Complex :not()
  • Accepts Headers
  • Event API: jQuery.event.special setup teardown handler

You can download it here