The article is not complaining about jQuery. A "code smell" is something in the code that is not necessarily bad in itself, but may indicate that the code's au

The article is not complaining about jQuery. A "code smell" is something in the code that is not necessarily bad in itself, but may indicate that the code's author is inexperienced or unskilled. Such code may contain subtler errors. The author is pointing out coding practices that cause him to suspect that others' jQuery code may not be very good.