State of jQuery
6.28.12
jquery 2.0
No ie 6, 7, 8 support
No major changes
use 1.9 for ie support
less code, faster with less feature detection
They will support 1.9 and 2.0
Use jquery 1.9 for people on ie, modern browsers use 2.0
sizzle
faster by about 5 - 10%
simple selectors better by about ~5%
better combinators ( div ~ em + i )
jquery ui
Tried for
api redesign for all widgets
<10 bugs per
Menu, menubar, tooltype, spinner, mask, selectmenu, datepicker rewrite
new site
Did
API resigns, accordion, autocomplte, postion, tabs
New - menue spinner, tooltip
Tech - website, api site, download billder, theme roller
jquery mobile
Team is growing - lots to do
new popup plugin (in 1.2)
getMaxScrollForPosition - fixed large lists
some cordova upates
working toward quarterly releases
1.2
1.2 in july/august
tablet optimization (responsive)
Theme Roller can help upgrade to later versions