I just found this preview of jQuery 1.4. I read some of this stuff at the jQuery site, but this is a nice explanation of the proposed functionality of the next major version of jQuery.

I think the new ‘live’ event handlers are going to be great. I can’t stress how much the ‘live’ method has helped my JavaScript development – it makes event binding much less of a chore when dynamically creating page content (especially for trivial things, like bindings for button hover behavior). One of the things I’ve disliked, though, is the change event of dropdowns isn’t able to be live captured, which has led me to use Live Query for those purposes. With 1.4, it can be done with jQuery alone.

It will certainly be interesting to see if the Lazy Load code is included, for on-the-fly .css and .js includes. By conditionally loading javascript and css, a lot of bandwidth could be conserved by choosing to defer file retrieval for little-used site features.

Some of the other cool new features will undoubtedly be radio classes and the offset get/set methods – I can see using those to save a few lines of code. I’m betting that there will also be some performance increases with 1.4, so I’m excited about the release, even if it’s release is still a few months off yet.