jQuery Core Team Meeting – Apr 11 2011

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

Official Agenda:

• 1.6pre!!! http://bit.ly/hBxZyG

• Timeline

  • beta release of 1.6 on April 15th

• Last chance to get some bugs fixed for 1.6beta ( old open tickets )

• API changes

  • .chain has been renamed to .pipe to link deferreds

• Done and merged into master

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

    1. bulk of implementation committed.
    2. STILL PENDING waiting on commits for un-queued animations

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

  • 13 (john): Add :focus to Sizzle

    1. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8105

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

    1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/301

  • 15 (dmethvin): Perf improvements for .data() events — in general, we won’t fire data events if nobody attached a handler (detected by jQuery.event.global count).

    1. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8790

    2. Need a review … I would prefer to “blacklist” natural events (click, mouseover, etc) so customs would all be faster, but it’s a long list: https://github.com/dmethvin/jquery/tree/fix-8790-quick-trigger

       • John: Can you do a pull request for this so that the diff is easier to see?

    3. Someone that uses dataEvents:

    4. https://github.com/jswartwood/jQuery-dataDefer

  • 16 (danheberden): Optimize validation in parseJSON

    1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/300

  • 17 (rwaldron): Fix event firing order Turns out this is a branch of #7340, which is Dave Methvin’s

  • 21 (dmethvin): Refactor jQuery.event.trigger/handle — Branch is passing unit tests; landed 4/6.

    1. http://jsperf.com/jq152-vs-jq16pre-trigger/3

  • 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 Fixed in 1.5.2

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

    1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/206
    2. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/283

  • 31 (jaubourg): Synchronize animations based upon start time (Thunderdome!)

    1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/tree/synchro-anim.1.6

  • 34 (timmywil, john): attrHooks

    1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/296

       • note this is going into the attrhooks.1.6 branch

    2. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/3685 DOM0, Prehistoric document.forms API issue

    3. https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/attrhooks-bugs

    4. http://jsperf.com/attr-vs-attrhooks

  • 36 (lrbabe, timmywill): Use requestAnimationFrame *Special attention to optimizing size

    1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/216 original
    2. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/298timmywill revisions
       • John reviewed: needs minor tweak

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

  1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/299

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

  1. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8777
  2. https://github.com/rwldrn/jquery/tree/8777
  3. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/302
     • John: Looks ok to me, landing.

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

1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/291

46 (john): jQuery throwing error on replaceWith

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

1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/133

51 (danheberden): Support relative values for .css()

1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/78 original
2. We wanted to see this patch DRY’ed out a bit, but we discussed in meeting and determined that it would probably introduce overhead to share this code between modules, and it’s not that much repeated code.  consensus was in favour of landing as-is. Dan is going to clean up the code a bit more.
3. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/297

valHooks (the more modest version)?

1. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/295

   • John: Looks good to me!

2. http://jsperf.com/jq152-vs-jq16pre-trigger/3

Bumped to 1.6.x / 1.7

• 10 (dmethvin): Optimize RegExp used for innerHTML shortcut (#6782, pull 248)
  1. This wants to add <select> to the list; need to see if selectedIndex still retained when we do that.
  2. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/248
  3. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6782
     • Needs more testing, bumping to a 1.6.x release.

20 (dmethvin): Attach data cache directly to element — In process, need to create separate list for global events.

1. Eventually  (1.7?) we will only support firing ajax* events on document and remove global events entirely.
2. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8792

45 (jboesch, reviewed by john): Make .width() work correctly for inputs

1. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/4146

2. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/253

   • John reviewed: Needs formatting fixes and possibly a code fix

3. also fixes http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/3333 ?

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