What are you the most excited about in the new versions of jQuery? [closed]

Answer 1

For me, it's the ability to now write event handlers with the live() handler. I know that live was present in the last version (1.3.2) also, but it wasn't fully supported.

This makes the code infinitely simpler especially if you have most of the DOM being created on the fly or via Ajax requests.

More about live here: http://api.jquery.com/live/

Answer 2

Well the performance improvements are of course something I appreciate, but I guess I can't say it's a "finally" since it's something that's subject to constant improvement :) The DOM-building (Quick Element Construction) syntax looks really convenient, and the detach method also looks quite usable: it allows you to temporarily remove an object from the DOM, but keeps all the handlers assigned to it, so that it'll work just the same way, when reinserted.

I guess there's not so much a lot of things that I've been missing, but now that these new features are out there, there's a bunch that I'm anxious to start using :)

Answer 3

For me it was this:

"All Events Can Be Live Events"

"We’re very proud to count some addtional events amongst those supported by live(). 1.4 introduces cross-browser support for change, submit, focusin, focusout, mouseenter, and mouseleave via the event delegation in .live()."

I've been waiting for this on the change event for ages!

Answer 4

Event delegation for focus and bubble events:

• http://api.jquery.com/focusin/

• http://api.jquery.com/focusout/

Answer 5

I am a speed freak so any speed improvement is always welcomed by me

Answer 6

Best feature in my opinion is allowing functions in setters:

jQuery('li.selected').html(function(i, li) {
   return "<strong>" + li + "</strong>";
});

A lot of code that required $.each can be removed now.