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Essential jQuery 1.4 reading and resources

Written By: Zander at Jan 19, 2010

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As I’m sure you all know jQuery v1.4 was released a few days ago, so I thought I would break tradition and actually write something on the blog.. I have collected as many (good) resources and information about this new release so that you all may upgrade, update and amend you existing code with ease, also I will keep adding to this post as I find more resources.

In no particular order, here are some very useful tidbits for anyone wanting to find out about jQuery 1.4:

Official Resources

  1. The 14 Days of jQuery and their first article detailing all the improvements: jQuery 1.4 Released
  2. Brand new API docs for 1.4: jQuery 1.4 API docs
  3. Video: John Resig — Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4
  4. jQuery 1.4 hosted with Google’s AJAX Libraries

3rd Party Articles and Resources

  1. James Padolsey wrote about The 15 New Features you Must Know for Nettuts
  2. For those using iPhones, there’s a great api reference optimised for the device, visit http://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/jq/ref/
  3. jQuery 1.4 API Cheatsheet – Avaliable in html, pdf and png
  4. jQuery Selectors by Cody Lindley
  5. jQuery 1.4 performance
  6. Understanding jQuery 1.4’s $.proxy() method
  7. jQuery 1.4 $.param demystified
  8. Easing in jQuery 1.4 by James Padolsey
  9. .closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4 by John Resig
  10. .index() becomes cool in jQuery 1.4 by Mr Speaker
  11. Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery by Louis-Rémi Babé at Learning jQuery
  12. jQuery Edge: New Special Event Hooks
  13. jQuery Events: MouseOver / MouseOut vs. MouseEnter / MouseLeave by Ben Nadel
  14. How jQuery 1.4 fixed rest of live methods – In this article Neeraj goes through some of the events that were not supported by live methods in jQuery 1.3.2 like blur, focus, mouseenter, mouseleave, change and submit and how they were fixed by the jQuery team for the release of jQuery 1.4.
  15. jQuery 1.4 Improves Code and Solves IE Issues – dzone.com goes through the steps the jQuery team took in order to make its code less complex and the issues jQuery 1.3.2 had with event bubbling in internet explorer.
  16. Benchmarking jQuery 1.4
  17. Wordpress users read this: How to use jQuery 1.4 by default on your WordPress blog

Additional

  1. yayQuery Podcast
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