jQuery Keynote - Spring 2011

State of jQuery Spring 2011 John Resig

State of the Project

Project

Spending Money• All expenditures are handled via public voting• What have we spent money on? • Team Meetings • Conferences • Developer time

Sponsored Projects• jQuery UI • Scott G• jQuery Mobile • Filament Group• jQuery UI Grid • Richard, Joern, and Scott

Spending Money• What will we be spending money on? • Getting more developer time to train and mentor new developers • Design work and jQuery Mobile • More team meetings and conferences

New Team and Eboard• Recently Joined: • Adam Sontag • Working with the UI and Bug Triage teams • Dan Heberden • Working with Infrastructure and Bug Triage team

jQuery Core and Bug Triage Teams• We’ve added a number of new committers • Dave Methvin (dmethvin) • Julian Aubourg (jaubourg) • Anton Matzneller (jitter) • Timmy Willison (timwillison)• We also got a ton of help from Colin Snover in organizing the team.

New CoreDevelopment Process• Weekly, public, team meetings• Deﬁned release dates and schedule• Frequent discussion in #jquery-dev (IRC) • Active participation of the committers and the bug triage team

Weekly Meeting Notes

Bug Triage Team• Responsible for processing all the bugs in the bug tracker • Make sure test cases are ﬁled• Work through pulls in the Github pull request queue• Make sure the test suite is passing

Roadmap Decisions• Put up a public form for people to submit possible feature suggestions• The team works through all the feature suggestions and creates a list • All of this is done in a publicly and discussed in a public meeting

Roadmap

New Releases• jQuery 1.4.4, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, and 1.6!• Ofﬁcial Plugins Status• jQuery Mobile Alphas 2, 3, and 4

jQuery 1.6b1• Whole bunch of improvements • Rewrite of .attr()

.attr() Rewrite• Provide a full series of .attr() hooks• jQuery.attrHooks.selected = { set: function( elem, value ) { if ( value === false ) { jQuery.removeAttr(elem, “selected”); return value; } } };

.prop()• Split apart attr/prop: • .attr(“selected”) -> “selected” • .prop(“selectedIndex”) -> 1 • .prop(“selected”) -> true

.attr() Performance• This rewrite also yields performance increases of around 85%!

valHooks• Similar to cssHooks and valHooks but handles .val() as well • Inputs tend to have different support depending upon the platform• Getting value is over 147% faster!

Better Support Tests• Interesting technique: • document.createElement(“body”) • Do it before the DOM is ready! • You can do visual DOM tests before they’re displayed • Prevents ﬂash of unstyled content

:focus Selector• Make sure :focus works on all platforms: $(“input:focus”) -> Find the focused input

Faster Triggering and Data• Triggering performance has been improved dramatically • Which increases the performance of .data() as a result!• .data() is around 115% faster!

Convenient Methodsfor Checking Elements• .is( Element ) • Simpler way to check equality• .ﬁlter( Element ) • Check if a set has an element• .ﬁnd( Element ) • Equivalent to .contains()

Synced Animations• Make it possible to ensure that animations run at the same time • Yielding animations that are less “glitchy”• Animations are all run at the same timer cluster (timers tend to run every 15ms or so, depending upon the browser)

requestAnimationFrame• New feature provided by the browser• Makes it easier to create high performance, smoother, animations

$.map( Object )• $.map( Array ) worked before• Now $.map( Object ) can map properties to other values• $.map({ test: 1 }, function( name, value ) { return value + 1; });

Use Function.prototype.bind• Use the method for jQuery.proxy()• Utilize the browsers native binding mechanism • Force the `this` of a function to be a particular object

Relative .css()• Bringing the functionality back from .animate(): • .css( “height”, “+=10” ) • Updates the height relative to the current height

Official Plugins• We’ve made a change in policy regarding official plugins• Official plugins will be maintained by the jQuery team (UI, Core)• Only plugins that fit into those teams will be supported

Existing Plugins• Into the jQuery Core team: • Color, Mousewheel, Easing, CSS Hooks• Into the jQuery UI team: • jQuery Templates

jQuery Mobile

Response• Response has been overwhelmingly positive• We’re getting support from major mobile browsers • RIM, Nokia, IE Mobile• And major companies: • Microsoft, Adobe, Brightcove, BBC

Better Browser Support• Firefox Mobile• Opera Mobile and Mini• Windows Phone 7 • (and Internet Explorer itself!)

What’s Landed?• Tons of bug ﬁxes and enhancements• Ajax form handling• Unit Tests (!)• Excellent keyboard and accessibility support• Touch optimized datepicker• Working great in PhoneGap

Rewrites• Faster performance across the board• All widgets using jQuery UI widget factory

Navigation Refactored• Rewrite of core navigation model • Including using the new pushState!• history.pushState(stateObj, "page 2", "bar.html");• URL now becomes: /bar.html• (but an actual page load isn’t done!)

Media Query Helpers• New classes: .portrait, .landscape• label.ui-input-text { display: block; } .min-width-480px label.ui-input-text { display: inline-block; }

Namespaced data-• jQuery Mobile is predominantly conﬁgured through data- attributes• <div data-role=”page”></div>• You can now namespace the attributes, if you wish.• <div data-jqm-role=”page”></div>

“Fast Click”• It’s surprisingly hard to make click, and other mouse events, work as fast as possible• There are a number of assumptions in place regarding touch events that make this hard.• We now ﬁx this straight in jQuery Mobile.

Mobile Beta• jQuery Mobile Beta 1 is the next upcoming release!• Even though it’s an alpha many people are already deploying applications that work great.

Enjoy the Conference!• More information: • http://blog.jquery.com/ (jQuery 1.6b1) • http://jquerymobile.com/

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jQuery Keynote - Spring 2011

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