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> It was exactly the same with jQuery - there were a legion of people (older than me!) who could only "code" with jQuery. They'd never seen window.getElementByI
by kolanos 5y ago
> It was exactly the same with jQuery - there were a legion of people (older than me!) who could only "code" with jQuery. They'd never seen window.getElementById().
No, they'd seen window.getElementById() but quickly realized that DOM API manipulation wasn't consistent between browsers. The whole reason jQuery was created in the first place was to abstract these browser inconsistencies away into a single API.