Tech Note: JQuery Reversion Syndrome
It’s back to jQuery 1.2.6 again; the new version needs just a bit more tweaking and tuning and bug eradication to be all it can be. We discovered a couple of spots in our code where version 1.3.1 was executing some DOM lookups much more slowly than the older version, even causing script timeout alerts in some browsers.
The new version of jQuery has some great features, especially the live event binding calls that let you automatically assign delegated event handlers to DOM elements created dynamically (like our spinoff links, for example). One or two more bug-fix releases and it should be ready for the lizard pit.
Frank says: