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For anybody who's as confused as I was: :hover and :focus have been around since CSS2, which was released in 1998 ... but Internet Explorer only supported them
by camtarn 4y ago
For anybody who's as confused as I was: :hover and :focus have been around since CSS2, which was released in 1998 ... but Internet Explorer only supported them on links for a long time, not on arbitrary elements, so that was where jQuery came in.
Ahh, I really really don't miss those days, and I'm rather happy to have reclaimed the giant chunk of memory that used to hold things like quirks mode and hasLayout.
- grepLeigh 4y agoAhh thank you, I had forgotten the exact details! I still remember the burning frustration like it was yesterday though, hah. CSS/HTML were my gateway into the tech industry though, so I'm glad I pushed through it. In retrospect, I could see why most "real programmers" were happy to push this tedious work over to me.