We're checking out the Closure Compiler - it looks like with the simple compile options on it takes it back down to about 64KB minified, 21.6KB gzipped (a very modest increase over the last release, about 2-3KB).
(Un)fortunately we've been doing a ton of refactoring in this release. The internal structure of jQuery was a bit convoluted and needed some serious love. Needless to say things are much better now: We have cleaner code, consistency in variable names, and a better internal structure. All of this is leading towards a two-prong goal: Cleaner, more readable, code and the ability to dynamically load portions of jQuery, targeted toward mobile development.
jQuery 1.4 is the first step towards jQuery being the best possible JavaScript library for doing both desktop and mobile development - expect more details here soon.
[+] [-] fortes|16 years ago|reply
Minified size, non-gzipped is almost 90k (up from 57k) -- will it stay this large?
Any news on the lite version?
[+] [-] jeresig|16 years ago|reply
(Un)fortunately we've been doing a ton of refactoring in this release. The internal structure of jQuery was a bit convoluted and needed some serious love. Needless to say things are much better now: We have cleaner code, consistency in variable names, and a better internal structure. All of this is leading towards a two-prong goal: Cleaner, more readable, code and the ability to dynamically load portions of jQuery, targeted toward mobile development.
jQuery 1.4 is the first step towards jQuery being the best possible JavaScript library for doing both desktop and mobile development - expect more details here soon.
[+] [-] ronnier|16 years ago|reply
-append, prepend, etc. have been heavily optimized
-find, empty, remove, addClass, removeClass, hasClass, attr, and css have been heavily optimized
[+] [-] timdorr|16 years ago|reply