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i am confused. What do you expected them to be? and why is it relevant?
by FnuGk 11y ago
i am confused. What do you expected them to be? and why is it relevant?
- simonw 11y agoIf you were writing JavaScript 8 years ago, a library like jQuery was pretty much essential to help patch over the enormous numbers of browser bugs and differences between the various IEs, Firefox, Safari and Opera. My experience is definitely that developers under 25 are much less likely to understand the historic context that jQuery came from, and hence have less respect for what it achieved (and continues to achieve).
- blowski 11y agoI've had exactly this type of conversation with a young junior dev. "AJAX requests are easy - just use the Forms API." They have no idea that in 2005 I read a whole book on 'how to make an AJAX request'.
- icebraining 11y agoJust getting a reference to the XMLHttpRequest object required twelve lines of code :|