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While doing my daily rounds today I noticed that jQuery 1.3 was released, and from what I’ve read it’s a very welcomed release indeed. Obviously there has been alot of work done under the hood which is A-Okay in my books, even though 1.2 was just great in Firefox and superb in Chrome (and yes I know there are a few issues with this site under Chrome, some of which I’m helpless to do anything about – stupid PNG opacity bug!) but I’m interested in seeing how well it will perform.

Another feature I find is a godsend is “Live Events”. The idea that it can invoke a selector query upon elements during the lifetime of the page without you having to declare anything apart from the initial query (which you would do anyways) makes me glee. Probably the best and simplest feature is a global effects killswitch. This gives users the ability to say “Hey! I can see you like jQuery and want to bling me to death but come’on that’s enough” and which a flick of the wrist (or press of the button) it can be turned off. This makes me thing I should incorporate that functionality into jQuery Particles, not just for the killswitch but also for the increase in speed. I have noticed with Particles and this site that it does bog down a bit on IE but then again that browser is so far behind it can say hello to Windows 98 (hah! I made a funny).

Speaking of Windows, I’ve installed the Windows 7 beta (64bit naturally) and it’s been running for almost 2 weeks. I know I don’t say this enough and with good reason but this version of Windows even though it’s still beta is very impressive. The speed and stability has never been heard of in the same context as Microsoft but I can almost imagine someone saying it. Sure there have been a few fuck ups with the OS but I think that’s more related to trying to get mouse drivers to work (I hate tapping unless it’s on an iPhone). Probably the greatest feature ever in the history of the Window OS’s is the new taskbar. It literally is the best part of the start-menu and the dock and fused together to make something much more friendly and efficient to use. The start-button is still there and works just the same as in Vista but the quicklist thing now is combined with the task buttons so what you end up is an icon which can launch an application or bring it to attention, fucking brilliant! I em pore any to download and install and use as you would vista, it might crash, it might even corrupt but god damn is it better than Vista, hell even Hitler would be better then Vista and that’s saying something.

On a final note for Windows 7, right-click! Right-click! Right-click! Finally Windows actually has context sensitive options for what you actually are doing, whether it’s for an application, file or whatever, it just seems to make more sense without strings.