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How much of the reaction to this is: "isn't it neat that web standards have advanced enough that we don't need jquery anymore," vs a pile on of: "jquery teh suc
by mattbierner 8y ago
How much of the reaction to this is: "isn't it neat that web standards have advanced enough that we don't need jquery anymore," vs a pile on of: "jquery teh sucks cause it's old and stuff."
- brink 8y agoThe web has modernized. Browsers are kept up to date now more than ever. jQuery helped support antiquated browsers, but that niche is no longer nearly as prevalent as it once was.
- h1d 8y agoReally? jQuery is not just about jQuery itself but its host of plugins make it very powerful. I still use some date picker even though input fields have supported date type but they look inconsistent across browsers and don't look as good as some of the jQuery plugins and it's just 1 example.
- cogman10 8y agoCertainly there is a lot of old infrastructure around jQuery. There is also a lot of infrastructure around Java's Swing. But, the point isn't that those things exist or that there are a lot of them. The point is that jQuery's biggest value add, at the time, was it had a very consistent and fairly fast development across several browsers. In the bad old days, IE, firefox, and Safari all had vastly different and divergent sets of features. Heck, half of the stuff jQuery did was stuff you should be able to do with CSS but couldn't because of how differently CSS behaved across browser. This was one of the biggest value adds of jQuery. (I went through the bad old days.. they were hell)