As announced on the jQuery blog, “jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation”, jQuery for it third anniversary goes to release 1.3 with the following features:

  • Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine.
  • Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist.
  • jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
  • HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
  • Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
  • No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.

    • Check out the Release Notes to see more details.