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Isn't this just pointing out that progress = functional -> declarative?

• rererereferred 2y ago
  More like progress is figuring out the common patterns and offering shortcuts for them. The querySelector api for example was born from jquery's popularity.
  • oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
    And it makes sense for those shortcuts, in general, to migrate 'up' the stack, JS -> CSS, JS+CSS -> HTML.
  • wruza 2y ago
    Really? I always thought jQuery was just a shorthand for it cause it’s too long to type. And they really walked the DOM to look for an element? What an ugly runtime it was, ugh. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39979816/how-was-jquery-selector-defined-before-queryselector-wasnt-available https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39979816/how-was-jquery-...
    • hnbad 2y ago
      Before `querySelectorAll` there was Sizzle, which was the selector engine that was eventually spun out of jQuery itself: https://github.com/jquery/sizzle https://github.com/jquery/sizzle If you think that's wild, before there were dev tools in every browser, there was only Firebug (yes, there was only `alert` before that, we didn't even have `console.log`): https://getfirebug.com/ https://getfirebug.com/