mutli-namespace patch makes my day.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Joe [at] subprint.com <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Nice one John...dig the new "closest()" method as well.
>
> cheers.
>
> --Joe
>
> http://www.subprint.com
>
> On Dec 16, 2:32 pm, "John Resig" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone -
> >
> > I have the first round of jQuery 1.3 patches ready:
> http://dev.jquery.com/~john/jquery1.3/<http://dev.jquery.com/%7Ejohn/jquery1.3/>
> >
> > This is in addition to the Sizzle selector engine patch which I posted
> > a little bit ago (and which I'll be making an updated version of very
> > soon).
> >
> > The patches are as follows:
> >
> > append.patch: Use DocumentFragment in .domManip. This is a large
> > overhaul of .domManip (and moves some of the logic into jQuery.clean).
> > The result is that manipulation code (append/prepend/etc.) is about
> > 15x faster. During this overhaul I made a change to how scripts are
> > executed. Roughly it means that scripts that are brought in as a
> > string and inserted are executed - but scripts that exist as DOM nodes
> > are not. This will solve the common problem wherein a script that
> > already exists in the page will be dual-executed. Let me know if this
> > affects your code - I suspect we'll learn more during the beta, as
> > well.
> >
> > append-2.patch: Just in case, this is the same patch as above, but
> > with the old-style of functionality intact.
> >
> > closest.patch: This adds a new method: .closest(selector). You can
> > think of it as .firstSelfOrAncestor. This has been a commonly
> > requested function and it will make implementing delegation code
> > trivial.
> >
> > domready.patch: An overhaul of the ready code, removing the the "wait
> > for stylesheets to load" logic. I did a bunch of testing on this and
> > it really appears as if it's impossible to get proper stylesheet
> > loading detection implemented (I wanted to have a "cssready" event for
> > 1.3, but it's not looking likely). Instead we need to back off and
> > simply provide normal DOM ready functionality in .ready(). This means
> > that we need to educate users to include their stylesheets before
> > their scripts in order for them to be accessible in time for DOM
> > ready.
> >
> > multi-namespace.patch: This adds multiple-namespace support to events.
> > Previously you could only do it with one namespace e.g.
> > .bind("click.foo") or .trigger("click.foo"). The patch allows you to
> > use any number of namespaces e.g.
> > .bind("click.foo.bar").trigger("click.bar").unbind(".bar.foo").
> >
> > selector.patch: Adds a new internal property that keeps track of the
> > selector chain.
> > $("div").find("span").filter(":hidden").parent().selector == "div
> > span.filter(:hidden).parent()". This is meant to be used by plugins
> > (like liveQuery), primarily. The implementation of selectors like
> > .parent() will be coming in a follow-up patch along with Sizzle.
> >
> > strict.patch: Makes it so that we pass strict mode in Firefox 3. Only
> > a few minor tweaks necessary.
> >
> > I have the following patches coming:
> >  - Landing Sizzle
> >  - Landing .parent()/.filter()/etc. selector implementation.
> >  - Native event delegation
> >  - Removing the remaining uses of jQuery.browser
> >
> > --John
> >
>


-- 
Christopher Thatcher

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