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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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