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jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released – with bada Support

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:07:45 +0000

In case you missed it, as I did, jQuery Mobile released version 1.0.1 a week ago. The biggest changes seem to be the addition of official Samsung bada support, along with some additional test clients. bada is an operating system for mobile developers developed by Samsung. It doesn’t sound like the team had to do [...]

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jQuery Mobile 1.1 – Fixed Toolbars, Improved Transitions

seangw — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:27:26 +0000

jQuery Mobile 1.1, which will be ready for release in mid/late February, will have some nice updates. I’m sure mobile web developers are happy to hear some of these: Fixed Toolbars – no more repositioning after a scroll, jQuery Mobile will have true fixed toolbars! Even better, purely CSS-based. AMD Support – A CommonJS standard, [...]

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HTTP Archive: Average Webpage now 965 KB (up 30%) in 2011

seangw — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:31:54 +0000

ExtremeTech published an article, The web in 2011: HTML5 dominates Flash, trouble for data capped mobile surfers. From the article: According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet’s most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes (KB), up more than 30% from last year’s [...]

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50% of Websites use a JavaScript Library

seangw — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:56:33 +0000

W3Techs published an update to their JS library monthly usage trend, and says that 50% of all websites now use a JavaScript library. jQuery is the top (by a considerable margin) at 41.7% of all websites. Wow! 50% of Websites use a JavaScript Library is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

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jQuery 1.7.1 Released

seangw — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:44:22 +0000

jQuery 1.7.1 was released yesterday, with many bug fixes. You can read about the fixes at the official announcement on blog.jquery.com. Most fixes are standard bug fixes, with a few memory leaks addressed. You can use the following CDNs to link / get the code: Google CDN: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js Microsoft CDN: http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.7.1.min.js Official jQuery 1.7.1 CDN: [...]

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jQuery 1.7 Released

seangw — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:12:43 +0000

jQuery 1.7 was released today, November 3rd, 2011. Check out the post on blog.jquery.com for details on the update. Some highlights: New Event APIs: .on and .off Better performance on delegated events (almost a 50% improvement) Better support for HTML5 in IE (blech, IE) AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition, this guy describes AMD well) support (it [...]

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jQuery 1.6.3 Released

seangw — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:27:15 +0000

jQuery 1.6.3 was released today, September 1, 2011. Highlights in this minor version include: XSS (cross site scripting) Attack fixed Fixed Animation issues based on the requestAnimationFrame API (no longer used, due to problems with actions being queued until div is visible) Better handling of the new HTML5 attributes Some other useful fixes include: jQuery.parseXML [...]

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jQuery and CSS3: Tutorial showing some Google+ Animation Code

seangw — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:15:45 +0000

I’ve been checking out Google Plus information, and ran across a blog that combined jQuery, CSS3 and Google Plus all in one. Jackpot! Srinivas Tamada writes, at 9lessons.info, Google Plus Style Animations with Jquery and CSS3. You’ll notice the circle rotation animations aren’t handled in jQuery like we’re used to, but use the capabilities CSS3 [...]

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jQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released

seangw — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:55:51 +0000

Yesterday, June 20, 2011, the jQuery Mobile team released Beta 1. The team intends to release the final jQuery Mobile at the end of the summer. Another beta should be out within the next month. With each release of jQuery Mobile we see better and better support for both core jQuery libraries, and mobile browsers. [...]

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jQuery 1.6 Released

seangw — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:29:52 +0000

The jQuery Team and the jQuery bug triage team have released jQuery version 1.6 today. You can use CDN’d copies of the file at: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.min.js http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.6.min.js [Google is still uploading] Included in the recent version: Significant speed improvements to the attribute module (attr(), val()) data() has been improved to match the W3c HTML5 spec, [...]

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