Marking the 3rd birthday of jQuery, John has released version 1.3. I was curious to see the performance improvement caused by the new sizzle selector engine. According to their testing it is 49% faster than in the previous release that was already considered fast as hell.
For a complete list of novelties, see the release notes.

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