jQuery summit is an online conference that was held this Thursday. The main event was of course The State of jQuery with John Resig.

John talked a lot about the news in the upcoming version 1.4 of jQuery. Some of the news are:

• Optimization and improvements of existing functions (some are now three times faster that before)
• jQuery.core will be split in to several modules.
• Dynamically loading portions of the library with .getScript().
• .toArray() method. Returns an array of DOM elements.
• .get(-N). Access elements with negative indices.
• .data(). Returns all data for an element.
• .detach(). Like .remove() but keeps events and data intact.
• .remove() is now a lot faster.

Other news:

• Mobile jQuery in the process.
• 21.56% of all websites use jQuery!
• A new plugin site with a CDN is on the way.

Other interesting presentations were jQuery Anti-Patterns for Performance & Compression with Paul Irish and Refactoring jQuery with Mike Hostetler.