State of jQuery - Part1 - jQuery Core
summary
jQuery Core aims for a single major 1.8 release (July) with fixes, CSS vendor prefixes, smaller payloads and deprecations like live and $.browser; a Grunt-based modular build lets you exclude parts (example: 32.8KB full build → ~24KB when swapping in a tiny JSONP plugin). An experimental Closure Compiler branch is tracked separately. Roadmap: 1.9 removes deprecated APIs (compat plugin available) and 2.0 drops IE6–8 support so core can be simplified and faster, with touch and platform-specific work pushed to plugins.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45jQuery Foundation
- 1:41jQuery Core
- 1:52jQuery Release Schedule
- 2:05jQuery 18 Overview
- 4:27Grunt
- 5:53Size Savings
- 6:55Plugins
- 8:01Closure Compiler
- 9:01Compatibility Plugin
- 10:04jQuery 20 Release
- 10:51jQuery 20 Changes
- 12:03Things to throw out
- 12:36Shrink code base
- 13:21Modern browsers
- 14:37jQuery 20 IE8
- 14:52jQuery 19 and jQuery 20
- 15:21Conditional Comments
- 16:08Focus on Plugins
- 16:48Touch Events
- 18:03LawCat
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