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Because there's a body of misinformed devs who think jQuery's not JavaScript, or that it's some route around having to learn JavaScript.

• jrockway 17y ago
  It's monads!!111!!!
• CoryMathews 17y ago
  sad.. but true
• ewjordan 17y ago
  It depends what you mean - if you only mean "learn JavaScript" in the sense of learning the language itself, then no, jQuery doesn't change a thing, you've still got to figure out your way around the (rather minimalistic, esp. given the lack of significant standard libraries) language. But if you mean "learn JavaScript" in the pre-jQuery sense, then what you really mean is "accumulate encyclopedic knowledge of all sorts of browser dependent bullshit that constantly thwarts every attempt to write clean, reusable code that actually works." In that case, jQuery (and other similar libs, of course) really does change the game. You can get pretty damn far without ever knowing a thing about the various incompatibilities; this, IMO, is one of the best things about the new sets of Javascript tools out there, they really are starting to bring us towards the point where you can just write clean code that does what it's supposed to, without working around bugs (features?) in other people's code.
  • axod 17y ago
    >> "accumulate encyclopedic knowledge of all sorts of browser dependent bullshit that constantly thwarts every attempt to write clean, reusable code that actually works." That point is overplayed to the point of insanity. Unless you're targeting IE5, browser differences in js are minimal. Most of the inconsistencies are in layout.
  • jluxenberg 17y ago
    Hmmm, then this plugin is broken because it doesn't crash any browser _except_ IE6!