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One key difference is the jQuery version will gracefully do nothing if "#something" doesn't exist, while yours will throw "TypeError: Cannot read property 'addE

One key difference is the jQuery version will gracefully do nothing if "#something" doesn't exist, while yours will throw "TypeError: Cannot read property 'addEventListener' of null".

NhanH 12y ago
Additionally, that's actually not equivalent to Jquery .on(), which is the recommended way to add event nowadays.
smellf 12y ago
You say jQuery "gracefully does nothing", I say the code fails silently and the application breaks anyway with no real indication of where the problem lies.