JQuery 1.7 beta 1 released

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/09/28/jquery-1-7-beta-1-released/

by petercooper • 15 years ago

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tjsnyder• 15 years ago

On and Off is going to be great for future development. Especially when you can't guarantee how a dom element had events assigned to it.

lukifer• 15 years ago

Short term, this raises the learning curve (if I was a newb, my eyes would bleed at having 5+ ways to attach events), but long-term, this is a major win for code cleanliness.

hswolff• 15 years ago

I think it may increase initial confusion when first learning jQuery however a thorough tutorial explaining the differences/similarities and reasoning behind the event names would ideally clear up any confusion. Although the easiest path to understanding how to use the calls for daily use would be to have the user forgo all old event methods and just focus on using .on and .off (assuming they'll never have to use a jQuery version less than 1.7 which is unlikely).

wavephorm4• 15 years ago

Are people still using this library? With the emergence of mobile browsers which have great HTML5 support, and the decline of aging browsers like IE, I wonder does jQuery have much of a future? I don't need it to handle ajax queries and canvas, and websockets, and backbone has better data handling etc...

crazygringo• 15 years ago

As long as people continue to use browsers that are old or different, and people want to write one-size-fits-all JavaScript. Which means, for many years into the future, at least. So, to answer your question quantitatively, people are using jQuery more than ever:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=jquery

Also, jQuery has little to do with HTML5, or canvas or websockets. Maybe you don't really know what jQuery is used for?

evgen• 15 years ago

Seriously? In my experience the question is closer to "is there anyone who is not using jQuery?". Handling feature variance among browsers is nice, but far from the only reason I see people picking jQuery for projects. Many people add in other libraries for specific features, but jQuery seems to be the base that most start building upon.

wavephorm4• 15 years ago

I only see designers use it these days.

masklinn3• 15 years ago

> With the emergence of mobile browsers which have great HTML5 support, and the decline of aging browsers like IE, I wonder does jQuery have much of a future?

HTML5 has very little relevance to jQuery (the querySelector API is pretty much the only one of real interest), jQuery is fundamentally a better API for DOM manipulations. As long as the DOM exists, so will jQuery (seriously, have you ever written a raw DOM web application?).

Not to mention the jQuery ecosystem, which provides a number of "headstart" plugins.

> I don't need it to handle ajax queries

XMLHttpRequest is quite far from the easiest API to use correctly, jQuery makes that very convenient. Also, deferreds.

> and backbone has better data handling etc...

Erm... you do know backbone uses (if not mandates) jQuery for view interactions right?

wavephorm4• 15 years ago

I've never used jQuery. That doesn't mean I have no idea what I'm talking about. 99% of people that use jQuery have no idea what they're doing.

jmitcheson• 15 years ago

Don't feed the trolls, people

ch0wn• 15 years ago

Sad that we have to remind ourselves on hackernews.

JQuery 1.7 beta 1 released

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