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Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by mkmcdonald on Friday June 22, 2012 @05:04PM (#4148787)
The DOM API is clear enough that silly abstractions like "selector engines" are unnecessary.

The C vs. Assembly argument is such a silly non-point; apples and artichokes.

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Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by nilliams on Friday June 22, 2012 @05:35PM (#4148941)
Selector engines are clearly not silly abstractions otherwise all major browsers would not have implemented querySelectorAll.
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Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by MatthewPhillips on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:40PM (#4149249)
But since they did, why use jQuery on mobile when 100% of mobile browsers support querySelectorAll?
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Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by mkmcdonald on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:17PM (#4149132)
…which is a façade for the existing CSS engine. Developers clamoured for it (right or wrong), and it was implemented.
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Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? by taligent on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:35PM (#4149228)
Hilarious that you think that one of the core features of the most successful JS library in history is a "silly abstraction".

And JQuery is much more than just a selector engine.

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