JQuery 1.8 Released

by warp on 8/9/2012, 9:52 PM with 40 comments
  • by kvnn on 8/10/2012, 4:29 AM

    Hey dmethvin,

    You guys are doing awesome work. Thank you.

  • by Axsuul on 8/9/2012, 10:59 PM

    jQuery’s selector engine is faster than ever, thanks to a rewrite (well, really two rewrites) by Timmy Willison.

    Would love to see some benchmarks!

  • by solox3 on 8/9/2012, 10:44 PM

    jQuery is now modular, but jQuery.com doesn't have the custom download option like they do for jQuery UI's themeroller. When that comes out, it's going to be big news yet again.

  • by andrewfelix on 8/10/2012, 12:07 AM

    >Automatic CSS prefixing

    Does this mean I can apply rounded corners via jquery css without having to write 4 separate css properties for each browser?

  • by kemayo on 8/9/2012, 10:48 PM

    We don’t expect to get any bug reports on this release, since there have been several betas and a release candidate that everyone has had plenty of opportunities to thoroughly test. Ha ha, that joke never gets old. We know that far too many of you wait for a final release before even trying it with your code. So now there is really no reason to wait, and you can find out if there are any bugs you could have reported earlier.

    Is it just me, or is that overly passive-aggressive for a release announcement?

  • by shortlived on 8/10/2012, 1:25 AM

      Size reduction wasn’t our primary goal in this version,  
  but we felt it was important to hold the line on code  
  growth, and we definitely achieved that.
    Does anyone have pointers to examples of specific changes between 1.7.2 and 1.8 in this area?

  • by on 8/9/2012, 10:59 PM

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  • by MartinMond on 8/10/2012, 10:56 AM

    Finally we can use border-box box-sizing everywhere! http://paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/ The bug has been fixed: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11004

  • by d0m on 8/9/2012, 11:08 PM

    I'm less and less excited when I see new releases of jquery. I guess it's so widely used that you can't add cool stuff without messing with already existing code or pissing some people off.

    TL & DR for the patch: - some internal rewrite - some small fixes - smaller code size