Posts by Greg Thomas

Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery

I don't think it's correct to say jQuery is dropping IE8;

Instead they are providing two versions with identical APIs

1.9 will support older versions of IE

2.0 will support IE9+ only, and so will be smaller/quicker.

See http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-and-beyond/ for details