14 DAY TRIAL // Web developers that have been leveraging jQuery have also undoubtedly come across issues when building projects for the pre-release versions of Internet Explorer 9.
But no longer! Not now that jQuery 1.5.1 has been launched. Available since last week, jQuery 1.5.1 is designed to play nice with IE9 by default, Microsoft informed.
The jQuery team has focused on repairing a number of bugs related to jQuery’s support for IE9, and revealed that developers should no longer come across glitches.
“jQuery now supports Internet Explorer 9 as a top level browser. All known bugs have been fixed and/or been reported to the IE team for resolution in the final release,” the team explained.
The software giant confirmed the bug fixes and applauded the jQuery team for the effort.
“This means all known issues with IE9 have been resolved and new issues will be resolved before future versions of jQuery are released,” noted Tony Ross, Program Manager, Internet Explorer.
“On behalf of the IE team, I want to thank the jQuery team and contributors for their efforts to support IE9 and for their continued work on an awesome JavaScript library. Please download and use the latest version of jQuery to get your site ready for IE9.”
Developers also have available IE9 Release Candidate, a development milestone which can be used in order to ensure that their web projects are tailored for the next major iteration of IE.
IE9 RC is feature complete and the last pre-release Build of the browser ahead of RTW.
Microsoft won’t say exactly when it plans to release IE9 to web, but members of the IE team told me that the milestone is extremely close and that devs should waste no time in getting their sites ready for the browser.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC) and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Platform Preview 8 (PP8) are available for download here.