01/15/2010
jQuery 1.4 released
Posted by
Osvel Legon
Today the 1.4 version of jQuery was released. This is the 4th birthday of jQuery library, and it's called the latest major release of this library.
One of the main updates is what they call "Performance Overhaul of Popular Methods where many of the most popular and commonly used jQuery methods have seen a significant rewrite in jQuery 1.4. When analyzing the code base we found that we were able to make some significant performance gains by comparing jQuery against itself: Seeing how many internal function calls were being made and to work to reduce the complexity of the code base".
You can look here for an overview of the of all the changes and functionality added to jQuery 1.4.
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