JQuery 1.1.3 is 800% Faster; 20 KB

This is what I call quality programming! John Resig released JQuery 1.1.3. The key improvements are:

1. Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2.
2. A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events.
3. A re-written effects system (with an accompanying fx test suite), featuring faster execution and better cross-platform support.

JQuery is proving to be a strong alternative to Prototype. The detailed performance improvement metrics from JQuery site:

The two interesting new selectors are unicode selectors and inequality selector.