jQuery Core Team Meeting – May 02 2011

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

Official Agenda:

• jQuery 1.6 Status

  • Docs status

    • Good shape, .pipe() is left as are some of the hooks

  • Blog Post

    • Features

      • Attribute and Val Rewrite

        • Hooks
        • Performance Improvements
        • Property Methods
          • .prop(), .removeProp() (Dave has this)

      • .find(), .closest() , and .is()with DOM elements and jQuery objects

      • .css() relative values

      • :focus selector

      • Synced Animations

        • Also: requestAnimationFrame

      • Using Function.prototype.bind

      • jQuery.map object

      • Deferreds (Julian has this)

        • .promise()
        • deferred.always()
        • deferred.pipe()

      • Breaking Changes

        • Should this be integrated into the attribute section?
        • (Dave has this) —> My text:
        • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oit_IX1xZg7wRcmpPPrtoqv6wIbnlJB9YBxn-EnZOxE/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMmB-rMP#

    • Performance Improvements

      • .attr(“get”) and .attr(“name, “set”)

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

      • .val(“get”)

        • http://jsperf.com/valhooks-vs-val/2

      • .data() / .trigger()

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

    • Accepting Feature Requests for 1.7

      • https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&authkey=CPmgicsO&formkey=dG0yTEs2ZTFWQUhDRUp5dzRyc3NwV2c6MA#gid=0

  • Blocker Status

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/report/207
      • jQuery doesn’t parse html from string correctly!
        • John: Fixed

  • Release Dates:

    • Final: Tuesday the 3rd

• Coverage analysis of jQuery documentation:

  • http://test.learningjquery.com/jquery-methods.html