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Let's be honest, jQuery was a patch for the IE6 bug.

by swalsh 10y ago

crdoconnor 10y ago
It was primarily a saner query language for the DOM.
xutopia 10y ago
It was much more than that. jQuery made difficult things easy and paved the way for future technologies by using browser specific abilities and providing a unified API for developers to use. It also standardized around a plugin architecture making it easy for people to write code others could easily reuse. If you think there is only one iE6 bug that jQuery helped alleviate you'd be wrong. There are thousands of quirks/bugs/proprietary crap that jQuery handled for web developers. Reducing it to an IE6 bug fix is out of touch with reality.
- igravious 10y ago
  They meant, the bug that was IE6 (all of it).