jQuery 1.1 alpha Released
After the latest jQuery announcement regards major update of the library, here comes the first alpha release 1.1 of jQuery as promised. The new API will not be compatible anymore with previous jQuery version, but a backwards compatibility plugin will be available with the full release of 1.1 for old versions. Features announced in this alpha release :
- Its selectors are 10-20x faster than those in jQuery 1.0.4.
- The documentation has been completely revamped.
- The complexity of the API has dropped by 47%.
- It has a ton of bug fixes.
- It has a bunch of great new features.
- … and it’s still the small 19KB that you’ve come to expect.
Download jQuery 1.1a (Testing Only!). More details on the API change over the jQuery blog.
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