Design By Tim

Congrats to the jQuery team - This is a massive new release of jQuery that’s been a long time in the making - and it’s ready for your consumption!

It’s chock full of new features (and probably bugs)

• Selectors
  •  :has(selector)
  •  :header
  •  :animated
  • XPath Selector Plugin
• Attributes
  • .val() Overhaul
• Traversing
  • .map()
  • .prevAll() / .nextAll()
  • .slice()
  • .hasClass()
  • .andSelf()
  • .contents()
• Manipulation
  • .wrapInner() / .wrapAll()
  • .replaceWith() / .replaceAll()
  • Event Cloning
• CSS
  • .offset()
  • .height() / .width() for document and window

• Ajax
  • Partial .load()
  • Cross-Domain getScript
  • JSONP
  • .serialize() Overhaul
  • Disable Caching
• Effects
  • .stop()
  • %/em Animations
  • Color Animations
  • Relative Animations
  • Queue Control
  •  :animated
  • step: Function
• Events
  • Namespaced Events
  • .triggerHandler()
• Internals
  • Documentation Move
  • Expando Management

Get you some Visual jQuery. It’s a “new” tool I found today, it was created and maintained by Yehuda Katz  - their bio states: “I am a core member of the jQuery team, working on evangelism and plugin management.”

Now, in reality this isn’t something that will solve world peace or even stop the war in Iraq, but it will help beginners see every aspect of any feature in jQuery. Which in turn could lead to solving world peace.  Now if you’ve just entered the fray and have no clue how jQuery solves world peace - why don’t you just read up on it then (official jQuery site).

I have no qualms of throwing a debate together about jQuery against Prototype. However Why jQuery’s Philosophy is Better does such a better job than I could. Not to leave out the rebuttal this is a well thought out approach to why JQuery: (Mis)leading the Pack.

What are your thoughts on the subject?

I’ve been asked by several people that they would like to know what I’m using for syntax highlighting - basically I’m not a big fan of any wordpress plugins out there - but never fear, jQuery is here!

Introducing: Jay Salvat’s jCodeViewer is a jQuery plugin which allows you to turn any div, textarea or pre tag into a simple Code viewer in an inobtrusive manner. You’ve seen how it works - now go use it!