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Do yourself a favor and use Zepto, it's already stripped down and you already know the API http://zeptojs.com/ http://zeptojs.com/

by jchrisa 13y ago

Artemis2 13y ago
Or even TireJS if it fits your needs: http://tirejs.com http://tirejs.com
mike-cardwell 13y ago
Browser support: "Internet Explorer 10+"
- TomAnthony 13y ago
  Yeah - Zepto isn't ideal for a responsive site, but if you're serving something different to mobile then it is great.
  - sjs382 13y ago
    You can fall back to jQuery on IE, if needed. Whether a site is responsive shouldn't matter—you aren't going to load choose jQuery/Zepto based on screen size, but based on browser capability.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  Luckily nobody will volunteer to support anything older, and will discourage customers from supporting it if they value their developers' sanity and their customers' experience and security.
- wil421 13y ago
  I could never use this if I wanted to put it in any project I work on. For most projects I have worked on so far I have needed to support at least IE 8. That probably wont be changing anytime soon because some user still havent upgraded since they first had a laptop with Windows 7.
  - mike-cardwell 13y ago
    Worth mentioning that IE8 is the latest version of IE that will run on Windows XP too.
Bahamut 13y ago
I got told that Zepto does some things poorly, such as garbage collecting. It would seem like that would be especially important when it comes to mobile.
huskyr 13y ago
I've worked on a big tablet-first site where we first built everything using Zepto, because of the assumption that 'everything would work the same as jQuery, but it's smaller and faster'. Unfortunately, we encountered a lot of bugs, inconsistencies with the jQuery API and general lack of interest in supporting IE. Somewhere halfway through the project we switched to jQuery and we didn't have any performance problems. Some things actually worked better because jQuery has better workarounds for some of the bugs in older Android browsers.

Do yourself a favor and use Zepto, it's already stripped down and you already know the API http://zeptojs.com/ http://zeptojs.com/

by jchrisa 13y ago

Do yourself a favor and use Zepto, it's already stripped down and you already know the API http://zeptojs.com/ http://zeptojs.com/

Artemis2 13y ago

Or even TireJS if it fits your needs: http://tirejs.com http://tirejs.com

mike-cardwell 13y ago

Browser support: "Internet Explorer 10+"

TomAnthony 13y ago
Yeah - Zepto isn't ideal for a responsive site, but if you're serving something different to mobile then it is great.
- sjs382 13y ago
  You can fall back to jQuery on IE, if needed. Whether a site is responsive shouldn't matter—you aren't going to load choose jQuery/Zepto based on screen size, but based on browser capability.
Cthulhu_ 13y ago
Luckily nobody will volunteer to support anything older, and will discourage customers from supporting it if they value their developers' sanity and their customers' experience and security.
wil421 13y ago
I could never use this if I wanted to put it in any project I work on. For most projects I have worked on so far I have needed to support at least IE 8. That probably wont be changing anytime soon because some user still havent upgraded since they first had a laptop with Windows 7.
- mike-cardwell 13y ago
  Worth mentioning that IE8 is the latest version of IE that will run on Windows XP too.

Bahamut 13y ago

I got told that Zepto does some things poorly, such as garbage collecting. It would seem like that would be especially important when it comes to mobile.

huskyr 13y ago

I've worked on a big tablet-first site where we first built everything using Zepto, because of the assumption that 'everything would work the same as jQuery, but it's smaller and faster'. Unfortunately, we encountered a lot of bugs, inconsistencies with the jQuery API and general lack of interest in supporting IE. Somewhere halfway through the project we switched to jQuery and we didn't have any performance problems. Some things actually worked better because jQuery has better workarounds for some of the bugs in older Android browsers.