In web design, everything easy is hard again

Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by striking on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:57AM (#16347813)

This isn't really true. jQuery's compatibility can stretch all the way back to IE8, up to the newest devices. If you require the web to be more than a document viewer, then you might in fact need some different tools; but HTML/CSS/jQuery didn't solve those if you're going back that far, Flash did.

But HTML/CSS/jQuery still work to solve the problems they always did. And they're still used in production today. According to W3Techs, jQuery is still present in 96.2% of the sites they could determine a JavaScript framework for in the Alexa top 10M.[1] And the very popular CSS framework Bootstrap still has it as one of its dependencies.[2]

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

1: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery/all/all

2: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introducti...

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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by lazyjones on Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:06PM (#16349288)

> According to W3Techs, jQuery is still present in 96.2% of the sites they could determine a JavaScript framework for

But that doesn't mean jquery was used exclusively on these sites. Look at any major website, in addition to some modern framework, they will often include jquery for just a few old hacks (I've seen popular sites include 3-5 different jquery versions on the same page).

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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by tyingq on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:05AM (#16352038)

Many sites hang onto jQuery solely for the Ajax abstraction that allows older versions of IE to function.

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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by marpstar on Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:33PM (#16349421)

Also, WordPress includes it by default, but rarely are the site admins actually doing anything with jQuery.

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