jQuery users and fans don’t always have major releases to look forward to, but that just changed with last week’s releases of jQuery 3.0 and jQuery Compat 3.0. The former supports today’s browsers and IE9-and-beyond environments while the latter supports IE8. (Both versions support Yandex. Browser, which was released in 2012.) You can get your files from the jQuery CDN or opt to link to them directly at: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.0.0-alpha1.js and https://code.jquery.com/jquery-compat-3.0.0-alpha1.js...
If you’re working in web development you probably fit into one of two categories of developer: You think jQuery is the best thing since sliced images and you couldn’t get through the week without it; or, you think jQuery is a bloated crutch used by people too lazy to learn real JavaScript. However you feel about jQuery, there’s no denying the impact it has had on the industry, and the changes rung in by the Web’s most popular JavaScript library. So this week’s announcement of jQuery 3.0 is...