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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by vidarh on Saturday November 10, 2012 @01:44PM (#4767345)
> It seems that everything requires jQuery these days

And there's your answer: The "cost" of depending on jQuery is small since so many things depend on it that most potential users probably already pull it in.

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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by StavrosK on Saturday November 10, 2012 @03:07PM (#4767586)
That's true, I guess. I just don't think you should include large dependencies if you can easily avoid them.
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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by jarin on Saturday November 10, 2012 @03:38PM (#4767662)
It really doesn't matter, if you use a version of jQuery that is likely to already be cached (like the ones hosted at Google Code).
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