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They might be using jquery because it abstracts away the quirks of different browsers (I seem to remember that old versions of firefox and IE had different APIs

They might be using jquery because it abstracts away the quirks of different browsers (I seem to remember that old versions of firefox and IE had different APIs for making XHR requests).

TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
But in this case there are no meaningful browser differences: var tag = document.createElement('script'); tag.src = 'https://github.com/greatfire/'; document.body.appendChild(tag); This works on any browser. Even IE6.
- svckr 12y ago
  Which, ironically, is not so different from what they are doing to get jQuery in the first place.
- aliakhtar 12y ago
  Ah, you're right. Then it really is stupid. I misunderstood what it was doing.