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jQuery was far from the only popular cross-browser DOM library. We had a choice of jQuery, MooTools, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, Mochikit, and quite a few others, alo
by oinksoft 12y ago
jQuery was far from the only popular cross-browser DOM library. We had a choice of jQuery, MooTools, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, Mochikit, and quite a few others, along with good presentation of standalone cross-browser techniques from sources like QuirksMode. jQuery mostly succeeded through its marketing to web designers which formed a critical mass of well-written extensions and hireable know-how, and a zeitgeist of jQuery as a baseline.