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flavor of the week libraries? jquery has been around for a long time and is pretty standard now days. my guess is, the average web developer probably won't unde
by Skywing 16y ago
flavor of the week libraries? jquery has been around for a long time and is pretty standard now days. my guess is, the average web developer probably won't understand backbone.js, but jquery is pretty simple yet useful.
- donohoe 16y agoI don't mean to imply that JQuery, PrototypeJS, YUI and others are "flavor of the week". What I mean is that every week I see a new FW posted on Github or elsewhere that seems to handle known problems but with a slight variation. Obviously its more nuanced than that, but it just seems to be growing fast
- udp 16y agoThere'd be a lot of code duplication if every snippet of JS needed to include, for example, all the browser-specific hacks that jQuery does, and all the DOM traversal, etc. It's much cleaner if all the solutions use the same common framework, and that's (nearly) the case with jQuery.