jQuery 1.8 Released
No big features, but many improvements under the hood:
- Faster selector engine
- Many bug fixes
Note that jQuery 2.0, scheduled for early 2013, will remove support for IE6 and 7. Before that there will be one more minor release with 1.9 that still has support for ancient IEs.
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Two new methods on and off are the new way of declaring event handlers. bind, delegate and live area deprecated. Also better performance for delegated events.
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