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The year 2013 was an incredibly exciting one for jQuery. As jQuery celebrates eight years of supporting web developers, it’s time for our annual review. I’m pleased to say that we achieved a lot in 2013 and have some great plans for 2014! New Leadership In November, Kris Borchers became Executive Director of the jQuery … Continue reading →

jQuery UK is back for 2014! The jQuery Foundation is pleased to announce that the third annual jQuery UK will take place on May 16, 2014 in Oxford, UK. This event is organised by White October Events. jQuery UK is the UK’s largest front-end developer conference. Over one day and three tracks,  pioneers of the … Continue reading →

Put down the egg nog and get ready to test. The latest (and most likely last) betas of jQuery 1.11 and 2.1 are now submitted for your inspection and approval. You can get them here: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0-beta3.js ... [More] http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0-beta3.js We know you’ve got a few days off over the holidays, so give us a big present and … Continue reading → [Less]

The latest betas of jQuery 1.11 and 2.0 have arrived! You can get them here: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0-beta2.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0-beta2.js Don’t forget that jQuery 1.x supports IE 6/7/8 and jQuery 2.x does not. What’s in ... [More] the beta Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD): The biggest change in 1.11/2.1 continues to be AMD. jQuery has supported having the library itself loaded … Continue reading → [Less]

With 2013 rapidly drawing to a close, we’re excited to announce that jQuery’s first stop in 2014 will be in lovely San Diego, California on Wednesday, February 12 and Thursday, February 13! It’s our first trip to San Diego, and we’re hoping you’ll ... [More] join us at the Town and Country Resort & Convention Center to beat the winter … Continue reading → [Less]

Ahoy Matey! Do you know what today is? It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! Before the jQuery team weighed anchor and ran for the grog, we left a treasure chest on the jQuery CDN filled with beta versions of jQuery 1.11 and 2.1. Here be the treasure map to ... [More] the bounty: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0-beta1.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0-beta1.js Don’t forget … Continue reading → [Less]

With just over a month until jQuery Austin starts, I wanted to take a few minutes to point out the highlight of our conference program: our talks! With a single-track conference, it’s our job to select individual talks that will appeal to the entire conference audience. At the same time, we want to make sure … Continue reading →

Hello fellow jQuery users! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us, but we haven’t been asleep. The jQuery Core Team has been heads-down working on jQuery 1.8, and our first beta release is now available! You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8b1.js Give it a try on your current jQuery [...]

In response to the flood of requests and emails, and our original promise to work on this, we’ve got an announcement: we’ve added a single day Beginner/Intermediate training right before the San Francisco jQuery Conference :) Tickets are on sale now (left side, below the fold). The training will be provided by our friends at Bocoup, [...]

Touch events have become a hot topic for web developers as more and more companies move into the mobile space. Most of us know that touch events support single and multi-touch tracking. Some of us know the trickiness of working with touch and mouse at the same time. Fewer know that there are multiple touch [...]