jQuery 1.4 Released Today

Today the jQuery team released the latest and greatest version of the most versatile javascript library on the planet. Cutting to the cahse, you can read about it here:

http://jquery14.com/day-01/jquery-14

There were a number of changes and upgrades, including the inclusion of sizzle.js into the new version (I'll talk about sizzle in a later post). I heard someone today complaining about jQuery saying it was "lazy" to use a library and not write your own .js from scratch (a "flash" guy... I think he is afraid jQuery is more useful than Flash--well it is..). Yes good idea, let me sit down and write something as good as jQuery form scratch to use for my projects or any. Let's be honest, the gusy who created jQuery are some of if not the best. If you think you can do better than them than go for it. You will be at it for weeks, if not months and years, and by the time you think you have something, they will be continuing moving forward with their kick-ass library.


Using a library like jQuery has NOTHING to do with laziness, and everything to do with being efficient and productive. Somebody else has done the ground work, created a code base, and made it publicly available to use. This is a god-sent in this industry and I applaud and thank the guys at jQuery for the work they have done. So to the point here it is, the latest minified version

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.min.js

Additionally, Google has provided a copy of jQuery hosted on their servers. This copy of jQuery is automatically minified and gzipped – and served from Google’s fast edge cache servers.


http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js

Include the above URL directly into your site and you will get the full performance benefits of a quickly-loading jQuery.

That's it for today. Grab the latest copy of jQuery and make some amazing stuff happen on the web.