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JQuery 1.4.4 Released

98 points by vladocar 16y ago

pama 16y ago
Congrats to the jQuery project. Here is the link to .fadeToggle() http://api.jquery.com/fadeToggle/ http://api.jquery.com/fadeToggle/
knuckle_cake 16y ago
(Enh) .width() and .height() now report the width and height of hidden elements (#7225) This makes me so happy I could cry.
- catechu 16y ago
  I would say the same, but I think its absence has reduced me to tears enough in the past, so I'll pass. :)
- Griever 16y ago
  Sadly it has reduced me to tears as well because I literally had to tackle this very issue only yesterday. That feature alone though is an absolute godsend.
tav 16y ago
My only wish for 1.5 would be for the entirety of jQuery to be cajolable, i.e. be compatible with Google Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ Thanks John and the rest of the jQuery team for your brilliant work!
jasonkester 16y ago
First off, thanks to the jQuery team for all the work you've put into this library. It makes a lot of lives easier. But please stop adding features to it. The download is already pretty fat, and already has plenty of extraneous UI fluff and DHTML stunts that detract from its core. If you really want to add a pretty "fadeToggle" effect, please make it available as an extension or stick it in jQueryUI, or otherwise don't force every single user on the entire internet to download it just so that we can do useful things like $('.disabled').each(). I know that you've got a team of smart people, and it's tempting to just keep going adding new cool stuff. But that's only going to make things worse. You need to accept the fact that your product is feature complete. Go into maintenance mode, make sure everything stays solid, and add make occasional small improvements to the core when it makes sense to do so. It'll be painful to make that shift, but unless you do, your library will become fatter, less focused, and in the end, less useful to developers.
- ElbertF 16y ago
  An extra 30 bytes for a useful feature isn't much of a big deal if you ask me. Especially if it saves me adding a bunch of code to do the same thing.
  - wanderr 16y ago
    Bytes add up over time. I don't know anything about this feature in particular, there may in fact be a great reason for including it in the core but I do agree that in principle, anything not core should be in a different module. Nice to haves are just that, no point making people download them if they are unlikely to be used. That said, jQuery is still awesome.
    - rimantas 16y ago
      The reason: In an attempt to further unify the methodology across our API, we’ve introduced a new method to Effects called .fadeToggle(). We already have existing toggle methods in our API for sliding (.slideToggle()) and toggling classes (.toggleClass()) and it made sense for us to extend the availability of a built in toggle to fading effects as well.
- simonw 16y ago
  The thing that impresses me most about jQuery is how conservative they are about adding new features. If you look at the jQuery API it's hardly grown at all in all in the past 4 or 5 versions of the library. Instead, they spend their time refining the existing methods - making .width() and .height() measure hidden elements, for example.
- JoelSutherland 16y ago
  This sounds good, but just isn't true. It's fairly lean, especially on effects: http://api.jquery.com/category/effects/ http://api.jquery.com/category/effects/ When you look at that list, fadeToggle makes a lot more sense. The only helper methods are for slide and fade, the most common animation types.
- RedWolves 16y ago
admorphit 16y ago
Updated from 1.4.2 today, 1.4.4 is not available in google apis yet- $('select option[selected]') no longer returns empty string, instead, undefined is returned when no selected option is in list; be careful of any broken scripts.

98 points by vladocar 16y ago

pama 16y ago

Congrats to the jQuery project. Here is the link to .fadeToggle() http://api.jquery.com/fadeToggle/ http://api.jquery.com/fadeToggle/

knuckle_cake 16y ago

(Enh) .width() and .height() now report the width and height of hidden elements (#7225) This makes me so happy I could cry.

catechu 16y ago
I would say the same, but I think its absence has reduced me to tears enough in the past, so I'll pass. :)
Griever 16y ago
Sadly it has reduced me to tears as well because I literally had to tackle this very issue only yesterday. That feature alone though is an absolute godsend.

tav 16y ago

My only wish for 1.5 would be for the entirety of jQuery to be cajolable, i.e. be compatible with Google Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ Thanks John and the rest of the jQuery team for your brilliant work!

jasonkester 16y ago

First off, thanks to the jQuery team for all the work you've put into this library. It makes a lot of lives easier. But please stop adding features to it. The download is already pretty fat, and already has plenty of extraneous UI fluff and DHTML stunts that detract from its core. If you really want to add a pretty "fadeToggle" effect, please make it available as an extension or stick it in jQueryUI, or otherwise don't force every single user on the entire internet to download it just so that we can do useful things like $('.disabled').each(). I know that you've got a team of smart people, and it's tempting to just keep going adding new cool stuff. But that's only going to make things worse. You need to accept the fact that your product is feature complete. Go into maintenance mode, make sure everything stays solid, and add make occasional small improvements to the core when it makes sense to do so. It'll be painful to make that shift, but unless you do, your library will become fatter, less focused, and in the end, less useful to developers.

ElbertF 16y ago
An extra 30 bytes for a useful feature isn't much of a big deal if you ask me. Especially if it saves me adding a bunch of code to do the same thing.
- wanderr 16y ago
  Bytes add up over time. I don't know anything about this feature in particular, there may in fact be a great reason for including it in the core but I do agree that in principle, anything not core should be in a different module. Nice to haves are just that, no point making people download them if they are unlikely to be used. That said, jQuery is still awesome.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    The reason: In an attempt to further unify the methodology across our API, we’ve introduced a new method to Effects called .fadeToggle(). We already have existing toggle methods in our API for sliding (.slideToggle()) and toggling classes (.toggleClass()) and it made sense for us to extend the availability of a built in toggle to fading effects as well.
simonw 16y ago
The thing that impresses me most about jQuery is how conservative they are about adding new features. If you look at the jQuery API it's hardly grown at all in all in the past 4 or 5 versions of the library. Instead, they spend their time refining the existing methods - making .width() and .height() measure hidden elements, for example.
JoelSutherland 16y ago
This sounds good, but just isn't true. It's fairly lean, especially on effects: http://api.jquery.com/category/effects/ http://api.jquery.com/category/effects/ When you look at that list, fadeToggle makes a lot more sense. The only helper methods are for slide and fade, the most common animation types.
RedWolves 16y ago

admorphit 16y ago

Updated from 1.4.2 today, 1.4.4 is not available in google apis yet- $('select option[selected]') no longer returns empty string, instead, undefined is returned when no selected option is in list; be careful of any broken scripts.