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Re:Why I'm still using jQuery by losvedir on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:50AM (#20022568)
> * Perhaps those 10 lines work equally in multiple environments (node, deno, electron, browser) where jQuery does not.

Heh, and here we come full circle. I remember back when the whole point of jQuery was to handle the different underlying JS implementations for you.

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Re:Why I'm still using jQuery by austincheney on Monday May 27, 2019 @01:19PM (#20023710)
Yeah, that always passed me off. I had little trouble writing cross browser code, but to be helpful jQuery would add code especially for IE that always got in the way when debugging cross browser compatibility problems.
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