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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by mariusmg on Thursday July 26, 2018 @07:50AM (#17616686)
>The Fetch API works in every browser

As long as you're using recent versions. The whole point of jQuery is that you can write some code and be sure that it will run correctly in older versions of the browsers.

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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by blauditore on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:02AM (#17616755)
That's not the whole point of jQuery, it's just one advantage.
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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by snarkyturtle on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:48AM (#17617895)
Well XMLHttpRequest has support going back to IE7.
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