jQuery 1.2 is finally here! If you are a web developer and you have not had the chance to play with jQuery, I highly recommend that you do. This library will change your life. OK, well that may be a little extreme, but I must say that before I found out about jQuery, any time I heard the words “ajax”, “interactivity”, or even just “javascript”, I’d head for the door. jQuery allows you to do what you want with javascript in a standards-friendly, unobtrusive way. It allows you to forget about all the tedious details of DOM scripting and just get down to business.
The release was announced yesterday on the official jQuery blog. They also posted the official release notes where you’ll find the links to download the source, both compressed and uncompressed, as well as instructions on how to upgrade, and documentation for the new release.