jQuery Core Team Meeting – Nov 01 2011

October 31, Noon ET

• jQuery 1.7 Release

  • Open tix – http://goo.gl/d0nPr

  • Detached head IE8 crash (Halloween bug) blocker

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10613

  • .show() regression?

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10622

  • timmywil to rename jQuery.support.supportsFixedPosition

  • Do these fixes reopen any old bugs?

  • RC2 this afternoon?

  • Release on Thursday? (need to ensure we fixed this bug!)

  • DOCUMENTATION by 11/3 before we release

    • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/1-7-docs

    • event property hooks — may come after release?

    • deferred.state() — done, pending review (get it?)

      • replaces isResolved, isRejected, etc booleans –dave

    • $.Callbacks — addy will write

      • http://addyosmani.com/blog/jquery-1-7s-callbacks-feature-demystified/

    • animate queues — hooks object. leave undocumented for now.

    • AMD –mention in the blog post for now

      • https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/bba3d610c7e3b611fe1eb89178c91106a156a5d