jGrowl 1.2.4 has been release and is now available for download here. This release is primarily to fix some compatibility issues with Internet Explorer. As always, if you find any bugs or have any suggestions please contact me

I've recently release two updates to jGrowl, the most recent of which is version 1.2.3. If you are a regular jGrowl user I suggest updating to this version as it contains some important fixes when using multiple containers. Callback support has been enhanced and improved to be more robust and jQuery UI theming by way of ThemeRoller is also supported. I owe a special thanks to the community which greatly contributed to this most recent patch release - thanks!

You can find the latest version of jGrowl here.

jGrowl 1.2.1 has been released. You can find the changes here and download the release here.

I released jGrowl 1.2.0 the other day over on the jQuery plugin page. It's basically the same as the last beta, with just some minor tweaks and improvements. The big change in 1.2.0 is a queue for notifications to prevent the screen from filling up with notifications and posting them outside of the user's scope of view. More info is available here.

I've gotten a couple of e-mails asking if jGrowl was compatible with the newly released jQuery 1.3. To the best of my knowledge jGrowl is fully compatible and there are no know regressions. I would recommend using the latest 1.3.2 release of jQuery though, albeit there are no known issues the items fixed since the initial 1.3 release are worth having and could possibly effect overall behavior.

I've just release jGrowl 1.2.0beta3 over at the jQuery plugin page. This release includes some minor changes based on user feedback to the way that a notification is closed. Currently the triggers occur by the little "x" close button or by way of time elapsed or by way of the "close all" button. While it's possible to introduce your own trigger for closing a notification (for example, click anywhere on the node), it's not as easy to implement. Subsequently, the closing off a notification has been moved such that at any time you can call, jQuery("div.jGrowl").trigger("jGrowl.close); and the close operation will be initiated.

You can download this release here.

A new beta of jGrowl 1.2.0 has been uploaded on the jQuery plugin page. This latest beta fixes several syntax errors if you went to compress the library or obfuscate it, as well as fixes a major bug in the log callback. That error would have occurred in the event that a custom option object did not define a log callback. If you run into any issues or have any suggestion please feel free to send them to me. Otherwise, you can download this release here.

I've released two new versions of jGrowl this evening, the first is 1.1.2 and includes minor changes to 1.1.1. Nothing serious or exciting there. The other release is an initial beta of 1.2.0 which offers pooling capabilities. What I've noticed is that sometimes too many messages get sent to jGrowl at a given time and messages which are the bottom of a listing can expire before they ever come into view by the user. This really defeats the purpose and functionality, so I've been trying to figure out how to avoid this problem. Messages are pooled into a queue and will only be rendered in the event that the pool has now reached its pooling size. By default this functionality is turned off, however I've included an example file that enables this functionality and sets the pool size to 5 messages. For those who use jGrowl and have run into this issue I highly recommend trying out the 1.2 beta. I haven't decided if anything else is going into 1.2 yet, so you may be looking at a final release... who knows, only time will tell! :) Anyhow, feel free to provide me with feedback on this recent change. You can find these releases on the jQuery plugin page here.

I have released jGrowl 1.1.1 this evening on the jQuery plugin page. This is a simple maintenance release fixing some minor issues that arose in 1.1.0. One new feature has been added, which is an optional setting to customize the content of the [ close all ] link for containers of multiple notifications. Additionally I have expanded the examples to include some more flashy skinning, and I have added a new example called jTweet. jTweet uses Twitter's javascript API to fetch twitter updates and generate several jGrowl notifications for them. The latest release can be downloaded here. All existing jGrowl users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

I got back to Pittsburgh yesterday evening to find that jGrowl had received some loving over at WebAppers and DownloadSquad. I think this was because of the jQuery Twitter page. Anyhow, when people get interested in my work I get excited which in turn motivates me to work on things. I've dressed up some notifications with other styling here, including the use of Smoke.png from the MooTools Growl plugin and flora from jQuery UI.