Simon Willison’s Weblog

Dojo 1.3 now available. Looks like an excellent release. dojo.create is particularly nice—I’d be interested to know why something similar has never shipped with jQuery (presumably there’s a reason) as it feels a lot more elegant than gluing together an HTML-style string. Also interesting: you can swap between Dojo’s Acme selector engine and John Resig’s sizzle.

# 1st April 2009, 12:19 am / acme, dojo, dojocreate, javascript, jquery, releases, selectors, sizzle

jQuery 1.3 release notes. Sizzle (new selector engine, available separately), Live Events (a variant of event delegation), Feature Detection (instead of user agent sniffing), faster HTML injection and more.

# 14th January 2009, 6 pm / jquery, liveevents, sizzle

jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation. The IP for jQuery and jQuery UI now rests with the Software Freedom Conservancy (a smart alternative to setting up a brand new foundation), while Sizzle is a separate project looked after by the Dojo Foundation.

# 14th January 2009, 5:59 pm / dojofoundation, javascript, jquery, jqueryui, sizzle, software-freedom-conservancy

jeresig’s sizzle. Sizzle is a new selector engine (work in progress, no IE support yet) from John Resig, designed to be small, standalone, library agnostic and ridiculously fast. It should eventually replace jQuery’s current selector engine, but if it stays around 4KB it’s also going to be really useful for projects that don’t need the overhead of a full library.

# 24th August 2008, 11:41 pm / javascript, john-resig, jquery, selectors, sizzle