State of jQuery
October 2008
John Resig - http://ejohn.org/

Growth
✦ Huge growth in 2008
✦ Doubled our size and reach
✦ Doubled the size of the conference!
✦ Market saturation
✦ 21 of the top 22 links on Delicious
popular relate to jQuery

Analytics
✦ Sept 2007 - Sept 2008
✦ 5.9m unique visitors
✦ 13.5m visits
✦ 56.8m page views

Google Trends
jQuery
Prototype
Mootools
Dojo
Yahoo UI
http://google.com/trends?q=prototype+javascript%2C+jquery+javascript%2C+yui+javascript%2C+dojo+javascript&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

March
Developer Survey
jQuery Prototype Yahoo UI Dojo Mootools
Other
18%
34%
18%
8%
8% 13%
http://ajaxian.com/archives/nitobi-survey-results-on-ajax-
development

May
Designer Survey
jQuery Mootools Prototype Yahoo UI Other
19%
3%
52%
11%
15%
http://css-tricks.com/poll-results-what-javascript-library-do-
you-use/

4-6 months later...

September
Designer Survey
jQuery Mootools Prototype Dojo Other
3% 5%
10%
19%
63%
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/javascript-in-
modern-web-design/

September
Ruby Dev Survey
jQuery Prototype Mootools Other
17%
2%
43%
38%
http://survey.hamptoncatlin.com/

jQuery 1.2.x
✦ Three Significant releases:
✦ 1.2.2
✦ 1.2.3
✦ 1.2.6

1.2.2
✦ .bind()
✦ ready
✦ mouseenter / mouseleave
✦ mousewheel
✦ $(DOMElement) 300% faster
✦ Event API for plugins

1.2.3
✦ New methods:
✦ .data()
✦ .removeData()
✦ Improvements to event namespcing

1.2.6
✦ Performance
✦ Event handling 103% faster
✦ CSS Selectors 13% faster
✦ .offset() 21% faster
✦ .css() 25% faster
✦ Dimensions plugin made part of core

jQuery 1.3
✦ All about performance!
✦ New Selector Engine
✦ 2-3x faster than the current one
✦ DOM Manipulation
✦ 10x faster
✦ No more browser sniffing

Redesign

jQuery UI
✦ UI 1.5
✦ Large overhaul of UI 1.0
✦ Improved code quality
✦ Faster
✦ Many bug fixes

Backing
✦ Liferay
✦ Supporting development of jQuery UI
✦ Hired Paul and Eduardo to work onUI
full-time
✦ Sponsored redesign of ui.jquery.com
✦ Mozilla Foundation
✦ Received accessibility grant
✦ Landing ARIA integration into UI

Nokia
✦ Web runtime (WebKit) on their phones
✦ Porting applications to run on it, using
jQuery
✦ jQuery will be distributed on all new
Nokia phones
✦ Will be contributing back
✦ Code
✦ Testing

Microsoft
✦ Making jQuery part of their dev platform
✦ Distributed with Visual Studio
✦ Building components on jQuery
✦ Will be contributing back to the project
✦ Code
✦ Documentation
✦ Testing

Thanks to...

Github - food!

Core Dev Team
✦ Brandon Aaron
✦ Helped with 1.2.2, 1.2.3, and 1.2.6
✦ David Serduke
✦ Helped with 1.2.2 release
✦ Ariel Fleisher
✦ Helped with 1.2.6
✦ Joern Zaefferer
✦ qUnit Test Suite

Team
✦ Rey - Evangelism, Message
✦ Scott Jehl - Redesign, logo
✦ Karl and Jonathan - Learning jQuery,
jQuery Reference Guide
✦ Yehuda and Bear - jQuery in Action
✦ Paul, Richard and the whole jQuery UI
team!

Here’s to 2009!