This isn't really true. jQuery's compatibility can stretch all the way back to IE8, up to the newest devices. If you require the web to be more than a document

This isn't really true. jQuery's compatibility can stretch all the way back to IE8, up to the newest devices. If you require the web to be more than a document viewer, then you might in fact need some different tools; but HTML/CSS/jQuery didn't solve those if you're going back that far, Flash did. But HTML/CSS/jQuery still work to solve the problems they always did. And they're still used in production today. According to W3Techs, jQuery is still present in 96.2% of the sites they could determine a JavaScript framework for in the Alexa top 10M.[1] And the very popular CSS framework Bootstrap still has it as one of its dependencies.[2] "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." 1: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery/all/all https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery/all/all 2: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introduction/#js https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introducti...