This is probably an old news, but jQuery 1.3 has been released January 14.
Now jQuery includes what was previously known as livequery plugin. Now you can program the future
Meaning you can attach events to elements that are not in the page (yet). I remember hard time I had (when I didn’t know about livequery) when doing AJAX-pagination for comment moderation module. It was like:
Now it’s
and that’s it – all future elements will have events attached to them automatically.
jQuery also moved their selector engine to separate object. Now it’s called Sizzle and is completely standalone.
And jQuery is now much faster (and that’s always a good thing). View the graphs on release page and see for yourself.
Need jQuery sIFR for a project I am currently working on. Found 2: one by Gilles van den Hoven and another by Jonathan Neal. Liked the second one – documentation, plenty of options, custom callbacks and this one is based on a wonderful flash plugin by Luke Lutman.
Unfortunately both don’t support transparency nor custom background, only background color. At least I couldn’t make it work. wMode=”transparent” didn’t help, setting bgColor to empty(“none”/”transparent”) didn’t work as expected. Will have to look into .fla file, but for that I have to boot into my Windows, and I so-o-o don’t want to do it
P.S. sIFR3 Alpha doesn’t support transparent backgound neither.
Highly recommended reading, even for those who are familiar with JSON.
There’s a very elegant solution to safe JSON parsing – anonymous function the “extends” String.prototype to include parseJSON() method (which will be part of the next Javascript specification due to be released in 2008)
Here it is:
A while ago I wrote about swfIR and the “flicker” bug it has. Several people came to that post through Google looking for a fix, so I decided to write one.
When page loads, images disappear for a fraction of second before replacement. That’s kinda annoying. Go and check an example on swfIR web-site to see what I mean.
You can download modified swfir.js here or manually change your swfir.js.