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jQuery
Original author(s)John Resig
Developer(s)jQuery Team
Initial releaseAugust 26, 2006 (2006-08-26)
Stable release
3.2.1 / March 20, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-03-20)
Repository
Written inJavaScript
PlatformSee Browser support
Size| class="wikitable" style="margin:0;"

|- | ver || gzip || prod || dev |- | 1.x || 31 || 90.9 || 266 |- | 2.x || 27.7 || 81.6 || 236 |- | 3.x || 29.9 || 86.3 || 263 |}

(KB)
TypeJavaScript library
LicenseMIT[1]
Websitejquery.com

jQuery is a JavaScript library created to make it easier and simpler to write JavaScript and HTML. It works on most web browsers[2] and was invented by John Resig. The first release was in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC. Today there is a team of programmers working on jQuery, which is led by Dave Methvin.

Today, more than 55% of the 10,000 most-visited websites use jQuery, hence it is the most popular JavaScript library being used today.[3][4] It is free and open source software and licensed under the MIT License.[5]

jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to write complicated JavaScript. Some things that are easier to do using jQuery are:

It also allows programmers to make their own jQuery plug-ins.

Companies like Microsoft and Nokia have said that they are going to include jQuery on their mobile platforms.[6] In addition, Microsoft is including jQuery in its Visual Studio software to use with the ASP.NET AJAX framework and ASP.NET MVC Framework.[7] Nokia has included it in their Web Run-Time widget development platform.[8] jQuery has also been used in MediaWiki since version 1.16.[9]

Release history

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Version number Release date Additional notes
1.0 August 26, 2006 First stable release
1.0.1 August 31, 2006
1.0.2 October 9, 2006 Archived September 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.0.3 October 27, 2006 Archived October 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.0.4 December 12, 2006 Archived October 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Last 1.0 bug fix
1.1 January 14, 2007 Archived October 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.1.1 January 22, 2007 Archived September 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.1.2 February 27, 2007 Archived October 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.1.3 July 1, 2007 Archived November 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.1.3.1 July 5, 2007 Archived October 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.1.4 August 24, 2007 Archived November 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.2 September 10, 2007 Archived October 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.2.1 September 16, 2007 Archived October 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.2.2 January 15, 2008 Archived October 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.2.3 February 8, 2008 Archived October 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
1.2.4 May 19, 2008
1.2.5 May 21, 2008 Fix for bad build of 1.2.4
1.2.6 May 24, 2008
1.3 January 14, 2009 Sizzle Selector Engine introduced into core
1.3.1 January 21, 2009
1.3.2 February 20, 2009 Archived August 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
1.4 January 14, 2010
1.4.1 January 25, 2010
1.4.2 February 19, 2010 Archived May 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.4.3 October 16, 2010 Archived March 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.4.4 November 11, 2010 Archived June 2, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
1.5 January 31, 2011 Deferred callback management, ajax module rewrite
1.5.1 February 24, 2011 Archived August 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.5.2 March 31, 2011 Archived August 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.6 May 3, 2011 Significant performance improvements to the attr() and val() functions
1.6.1 May 12, 2011 Archived August 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.6.2 June 30, 2011 Archived August 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.6.3 September 1, 2011 Archived March 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.6.4 September 12, 2011 Archived May 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.7 November 3, 2011 New Event APIs: .on() and .off(), while the old APIs are still supported.
1.7.1 November 21, 2011 Archived May 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.7.2 March 21, 2012 Archived April 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.8.0 August 9, 2012 Sizzle Selector Engine rewritten, improved animations and $(html, props) flexibility.
1.8.1 August 30, 2012 Archived September 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.8.2 September 20, 2012 Archived November 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
1.8.3 November 13, 2012
1.9.0 early 2013 Archived 2012-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Removal of deprecated interfaces and code cleanup
2.0.0 early 2013 Archived 2012-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Dropping IE6-8 support for performance improvements and reduction in filesize


References

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  1. ↑ "License - jQuery Project". jQuery Foundation. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "jQuery: The write less, do more, JavaScript library". The jQuery Project. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "jQuery Usage Statistics". Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
  4. ↑ "Usage of JavaScript libraries for websites". W3Techs. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  5. ↑ "License – JQuery JavaScript Library". Retrieved 2009-11-26.
  6. ↑ Resig, John (2008-09-28). "jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia". jQuery Blog. jQuery. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
  7. ↑ Guthrie, Scott (2008-09-28). "jQuery and Microsoft". ScottGu's Blog. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
  8. ↑ "Guarana UI: A jQuery Based UI Library for Nokia WRT". Forum Nokia. Archived from the original on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
  9. ↑ "jQuery". MediaWiki. January 19, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2012.

Other websites

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