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5th December 2009 - Link Blog

jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released. Impressively the new version contains no new features at all (correct me if I’m wrong), instead focusing on significant performance improvements to the existing API.

Posted 5th December 2009 at 5:31 pm

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