jQuery 1.4 and what you will love about it

Quick review of the new jQuery release.

Well folks it’s out, the newest baddest, meanest, and leanest jquery ever is here and it rocks pretty hard. What you need to know is this.

The speed has increased exponentially for most of the functions.

Besides the awesome speed increases they have quite a few new functions and methods that will help you along the way, here is a list of the ones i thought are important.

The .delay() is awesome, i’ve been using the setTimeout function for a while now, and that has gotten old. Now it’s as easy as adding

$("element").delay(200).hide();

That just delayed the hide by 200 milliseconds! HOW AWESOME! I love it, i’m going to use this today!

The .closes() is going to save me so many headaches (and maybe create a couple). It allows you to search for the nearest element to the current one. So far i have been using parents(“element”).find(“the_one”) and it works okay bit i have to use two methods, now its only one!

$(this).closes("the_one");

Now you have found the closes one to the one its confusing but i think you get the point.

Well in all honesty today i will only be using the ones from above, even though there are 100 more changes to it i wanna start using it, so bye bye for now. Enjoy!