jQuery is even faster with the release of version 1.2.6

I love jQuery. I've been getting into it over the past few weeks, and I've found it to be a very powerful and robust library. I remember how impressed I was when jQuery 1.1.3 came out less than a year ago, claiming to be 800% faster than its predecessor. Well, the fellows at jQuery have just released jQuery 1.2.6 and have again made some pretty significant improvements. Beside adding new functionality and fixing bugs they have increased the performance on several key features of the library; for more details check out their Google Spreadsheet.

• Event Handling is 103% Faster
• CSS Selectors are 13% faster
• .offset() is 21% faster
• .css() is 25% faster

I'm excited to try out the new version for myself. If you haven't checked out jQuery lately you should give jQuery 1.2.6 a try, it's amazing.