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Zepto is more of a "provide the jquery interface you're used to" (and that people often find easier, probably by habit) for modern browsers without all the adde
by nolok 11y ago
Zepto is more of a "provide the jquery interface you're used to" (and that people often find easier, probably by habit) for modern browsers without all the added compatibility in jquery. I don't like the way they present themselves (or at least did in the early days) but I believe they have a place.
- frik 11y agoI tried "Flot" charts library with zepto as a smaller replacement for JQuery, but it was incompatible with JQuery and uses a weird code style that is incompatible/slow with Firefox (and Zepto devs refuse to fix their code). In the end I replaced the few Jquery dependencies in Flot by hand. It's a shame that Flot still requires Jquery, it's a good charts library. The primary problem is that the zepto.Z function overrides dom.__proto__, which prevents many JIT optimizations. Overriding an object's __proto__ property is strongly discouraged and will be deprecated in ES6 --Firefox bug 947048