Today, I am happy to make a joint announcement with the jQuery team that the jQuery project has accepted these three plugins (jQuery Templates, jQuery Data Link, and jQuery Globalization) as official jQuery plugins.

As official jQuery plugins, the plugins will be maintained as part of the jQuery project.  Starting today, you can download these plugins by visiting the jQuery website. The documentation for these plugins is also now integrated within the official jQuery documentation site.

Furthermore, in the next major release of jQuery (jQuery 1.5), the jQuery Templates plugin will be included as a standard part of the core jQuery library.  This means that the “jQuery Templates” functionality will be included in the jQuery.js file.  And it means that developers will be able to take advantage of a standard templating library and syntax when working with jQuery.