It solved problems of cross-browser compatibility back when Netscape was still a thing, before Chrome existed, when major releases of browsers (IE) radically ch

It solved problems of cross-browser compatibility back when Netscape was still a thing, before Chrome existed, when major releases of browsers (IE) radically changed functionality between releases, and if I recall, we had Phoenix/Firefox as the most cutting-edge browser of the era. This is what browser market share looked like back then: http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/02/8908/ http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/02/8908/ When jQuery launched, it appeared on Del.icio.us and Digg, for context of its era: https://jquery.org/history/ https://jquery.org/history/