Comments on: jQuery 1.1.3: 800%+ Faster, still 20KB

By: John Resig

John Resig — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:10:20 +0000

@Dustin: I haven’t looked at Dom Query in ages. I did check out some of the code in Prototype for some ideas, but mostly just resorted to writing new things from scratch. In fact, my new :nth-child() code has already been nabbed by Jack and put in Dom Query.

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:46:51 +0000

The sizes seem to all be relatively the same now these days. As all are gZipped and compressed, you’re getting the same stuff. But this is still excellent news. Awesome for John. This is very cool. Haven’t peaked at source yet, but I’m wondering if John borrowed any of Jack’s Dom Query.

By: Daniel Rust

Daniel Rust — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:56:59 +0000

awesome news

By: Josh Giese

Josh Giese — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:50:00 +0000

I’m really excited about this! Thanks you jQuery development team for making such huge improvements to an already great (and free) library. I cant wait to use it.

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:32:01 +0000

@Justin: We compare very well in all browsers against all of the popular libs. We realized that we needed to improve our performance and the team worked hard to get us into a very good range as compared to other libs. At this point though, our focus will be on improving other areas of the library, such as UI controls, enhanced event handling, and effects, which is all part of jQuery v1.2 roadmap (http://docs.jquery.com/JQuery_1.2_Roadmap). Thanks for the interest.

By: justin

justin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:15:13 +0000

Anyone know how jQuery’s speed compares to Mootools? Any benchmarks out there?

By: Vsync

Vsync — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:17:06 +0000

This is just awesome news! i’ve been waiting for this release for a long time!!
great job you guys! :D

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:46:47 +0000

Thx Miguel :)

By: Miguel Benevides

Miguel Benevides — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:08:50 +0000

Congratulations and thanks to the JQuery team.
Mike: 1.1.3 – 1.1.2 = 0.0.1 you don’t sell cheap ;)

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:49:26 +0000

@Mike:Thats fine. There are many choices out there. Good luck.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:34:32 +0000

even with this update, I will never use this js library/framework.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:18:07 +0000

When I was new to Ajax and JS frameworks, I opted for prototype\scriptaculous because of their presence on the web. I ton of tutorials and examples, etc.

Within the past 2 months I gave JQuery a shot and I will never look back. I have begun replacing all my sites’ JS with JQuery and I hope that the upcoming books are worth the money!

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:43:23 +0000

Guys, Gilles said it perfectly and this post *IS* about all of the great new updates in jQuery, not file size. The whole file size issue has been hashed and rehashed over and over so how about we focus on the great things that have been updated in the jQuery library instead of trying to nitpick over something as inane as file size.

By: Brandon Aaron

Brandon Aaron — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:23:10 +0000

err… jquery.min.js …

By: Brandon Aaron

Brandon Aaron — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:21:47 +0000

@todd:
The 20kb file size is without gzip compression. If you take the jqury.min.js and gzip it, the file size would be only 11kb.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:15:17 +0000

@Todd; The goal of the team was to improve the speed without adding extra kb, and they succeeded. That is why it is stressed that it is “still” 20kb.

By: Frank Thuerigen

Frank Thuerigen — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:11:10 +0000

Works like charm… thanks again to John and the crew ;-)
What I like especially about jQuery is that it doesnÂ´t overload JS base functionality. To me this has become a key issue, since twoBirds was designed to load foreign libs on demand also. From the first try, jQuery was amazingingly simple in this, it went from trial into production in less than an hour… and it has become my #1 recommendation for effects.

By: todd

todd — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:37:50 +0000

That is 20kb compressed (most JS frameworks are that small now),
Prototype compressed is 15kb-22kb, dojo (new release) is 20 ish)…

By: bietchetlien

bietchetlien — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:34:10 +0000

Awesome, speed is very important

By: Oscar Antolinez

Oscar Antolinez — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:30:15 +0000

Buenas Noticias!!!!!!