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In this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with John Resig after the live uStream keynote to get more insight into the jQuery 1.4 release.

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Here are the show notes for this episode:

Interview

• jQuery 1.4 overview
  • Major Contributors
    
  • A look behind the scenes to get the release complete
    
  • what are the main reasons people should upgrade to 1.4?
  
  
• Performance gains overview
  
• New functionality overview
  • New methods
    • clearQueue
      
    • jQuery.contains
      
    • delay
      
    • detach
      
    • focusin & focusout
      
    • has
      
    • isEmptyObject
      
    • isPlainObject
      
    • nextUntil
      
    • jQuery.noop
      
    • parentsUntil
      
    • jQuery.proxy
      
    • toArray
      
    • unwrap
    
    
  • numerous updated methods
    • is there a common theme amongst all the updated methods? Performance, new options etc?
  
  
• Plans for the future

Wrap up

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