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jQuery 1.4 is Born...

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Posted in jQuery | Posted on 01-14-2010 | 2,807 views

Just a quick note to let folks know that jQuery 1.4 is now officially released. More information can be found at the jQuery14 site. That link also includes a nice overview (with pretty charts!) of some of the updates. Oh, and Google is already offering a CDN version as well.

So - who is going to take this opportunity to jump upon the jQuery bandwagon??


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Steven Erat said on 01-14-2010 at 7:26 PM #
By coincidence I just watched your archived preso on JQuery and ColdFusion, as well as the preso of J.J. Merrick. Today I built my first JQuery exercises, and even got as far as using JQuery driven AJAX with ColdFusion and JSON. I felt like I was able to accomplish a lot in very little time.
Todd Rafferty said on 01-14-2010 at 7:38 PM #
@Steven: One of us! One of us! One of us!

btw, we have a bunch of plugins we can recommend for you. :)
Phillip Senn said on 01-14-2010 at 9:02 PM #
Get on board, little children, get on board.
There's room for many-a-more.
Jim Papaleo said on 01-15-2010 at 7:53 AM #
I've been on the wagon for awhile.
Kevin said on 01-15-2010 at 12:52 PM #
Big fan, this weekend going to test on a site I did that uses a lot of the functions that have performance improvements, so hoping to see a difference. Also curious to see how plugins behave (cycle, scrolling)
Russ S. said on 01-15-2010 at 8:57 PM #
A client of mine had all their pages linked to Google's jQuery 1 file (http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jque...), which is automatically updated to the latest 1.x version. At least one of the plugins they are using started throwing errors when Google updated that file the 1.4.

It's funny, I specifically remember commenting on someone's blog about the dangers of linking to Google's jQuery files. The blog owner scoffed at me, but who's laughing now? If only I could remember whose blog that was so I could gloat in the right direction...

I wonder how many people are debugging their fancy UIs right now...
andy matthews said on 01-16-2010 at 9:24 AM #
Russ, that's pretty poor form. The only thing that user did wrong was to use the "current" version of jQuery rather than a specific version. The difference:

// whatever the current version happens to be
ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/

// jQuery 1.4
ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/

The upsides to using Google's code hosting is that you can worldwide distributed caching, and since it's from a central location if your user already has that file they won't need to download it again.
andy matthews said on 01-16-2010 at 9:26 AM #
For those interested in learning jQuery I'll be leading a session on January 20th to the San Francisco Bay Are ColdFusion User Group. It's a two part preso which starts at 6:30 PST. I'll begin with jQuery 101, then wrap it up with a session on how to build AIR applications using jQuery and ColdFusion.
andy matthews said on 01-16-2010 at 9:27 AM #
Forgot the link:
http://andymatthews.net/read/2010/01/05/jQuery,-AI...
Gary Funk said on 01-16-2010 at 9:42 AM #
Thanks Andy. I wil mark that on my calendar.

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