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Re:jQuery.sheet – Easy and fast spreadsheets for the web by FooBarWidget on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:29PM (#11045491)
jQuery is still a whole lot easier to use than native DOM APIs.
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Re:jQuery.sheet – Easy and fast spreadsheets for the web by tlrobinson on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:37PM (#11046072)
jQuery is a thin wrapper on the DOM APIs. React and similar tools are entirely different (better, IMHO) abstractions.
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Re:jQuery.sheet – Easy and fast spreadsheets for the web by PSeitz on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:22AM (#11046901)
That problem is that it is not a thin wrapper. You can see that in various performance comparisons that jquery is much slower.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11503534/jquery-vs-docume...

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