jQuery UI Team Needs Your Help

The jQuery UI team needs your help in ensuring that jQuery UI v1.5 is rock solid. So they're conducting a Worldwide Sprint in order to get as much help as possible and get jQuery UI launched. “The jQuery UI Team… Continue Reading

jQuery UI and jQuery Enchant Alpha Versions Released Today

Repost from my Ajaxian.com posting: The jQuery UI team announced today the release of alpha versions of jQuery UI 1.5a and jQuery Enchant 1.0a! The projects aim to address the need for a strong set of UI controls and effects… Continue Reading

Why people love the jQuery JavaScript library

Ben Nadel described it perfectly: I have been using jQuery for a while now and the high has still not worn off. Even now, after I know what to expect, I find myself stopping in the middle of event wiring… Continue Reading

jQuery v1.2: Major new release, sneak peak at jQuery UI

Hot on the heels of the jQuery v1.1.4 release, John Resig and the jQuery team put the pedal to the metal and announced their newest release, jQuery v1.2. This is a massive new release of jQuery that's been a long… Continue Reading

jQuery Love Fest Continues: Meet Peter Bell

Over the last year, I've posted about how top CF developers have been flocking to the jQuery javascript library. jQuery is truly an awesome piece of work and I can completely understand why their loving it; ease-of-use, awesome community, exceptional… Continue Reading

Rob Gonda's AjaxCFC Library: Important News

Now that Rob Gonda has officially volunteered…er I mean asked me to join the AjaxCFC team, its time get this badboy updated. Here are some immediate things that we're doing: We're going back to calling the library AjaxCFC instead of… Continue Reading

XRay: Must Have Bookmarklet to Inspect Your Web Page's DOM

Ajaxian is reporting about a very neat and cool bookmarklet, XRay, that helps you visually get information about specific elements on your page. The site best describes its functionality as “a free cross browser tool (a bookmarklet) that lets you… Continue Reading

New jQuery Plugin for Google & Yahoo Mapping

Tane Piper today released v1.3 of his jQuery mapping plugin with the following major updates: Added support for creating Yahoo! Maps, can create Map, Satallite or Hybrid. Check out available options below Added support for creating points on Yahoo! maps.… Continue Reading

Lots of jQuery Ajax Framework News Today

First up: Jim Priest does an excellent job of reviewing the first couple of chapter's of Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer's newly released jQuery book, Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques My favorite… Continue Reading

jQuery Ajax Library v1.1.3: 800%+ Faster, still 20KB

I wanted to let you know about the jQuery Project's latest version release. With jQuery v1.1.3, you'll see a ton of enhancements that really make an impact. http://jquery.com/blog/2007/07/01/jquery-113-800-faster-still-20kb/ The key points are: Increased selector speed by 800% without increasing the… Continue Reading