jQuery Core Team Meeting – Mar 28 2011


Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

  • 1.5.2 Blocker Status
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/report/205

    • Release on the 31st

    • Bugs:

      1. Firefox: uncaught exception at line 1285
    • Bug Triage on Wednesday (11am EST)

      • Adam, Rick, John, Ben all together in Boston, everyone else, please help from your internet (Julian is helping from the net)
    • jQuery 1.6 Status ( beta release of 1.6 on April 15th )

      • 2 (danheberden, jaubourg): Have .animate() implement a deferred object

      • 5 (jaubourg): Do support tests in an iframe document (or maybe use false body element)

      • 10 (dmethvin): Optimize RegExp used for innerHTML shortcut (#6782, pull 248)

      • 13 (john): Add :focus to Sizzle

      • 14 (rwaldron): Allow properties to be passed in to $.Event() constructor

      • 15 (dmethvin): Perf improvements for .data() events

      • 16 (danheberden): Optimize validation in parseJSON

      • 17 (rwaldron): Fix event firing order

      • 20 (dmethvin): Attach data cache directly to element

      • 21 (dmethvin): Refactor jQuery.event.trigger/handle

      • 22 (dmethvin): Issue with triggering of focusin – may be fixed by pull 260, need to check with Joern who reported a problem i couldn’t repro

      • 23 (timmywil): Allow .is(), .find(), and .closest() to accept nodes

        1. Pull request is ready
      • 31 (jaubourg): Synchronize animations based upon start time (Thunderdome!)

      • 34 (john): attrHooks

        1. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/3685 DOM0, Prehistoric document.forms API issue
        2. https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/attrhooks-bugs
      • 36 (lrbabe): Use requestAnimationFrame *Special attention to optimizing size

      • 38 (danheberden): $.map() working on objects

      • 39 (rwaldron): .undelegate() doesn’t work on custom namespaced events

      • 42 (timmywil): .closest() fails on disconnected nodes

      • 45 (john): Make .width() work correctly for inputs

      • 46 (john): jQuery throwing error on replaceWith

      • 51 (ajpiano): Support relative values for .css()

      • 52 (gf3, cowboy): Add Function.prototype.bind() support to jQuery.proxy

    • New feature requests: will not be landed for 1.6