Native equivalents of jQuery functions

Re:Native equivalents of jQuery functions by igul222 on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:23PM (#5741144)

Question: if jQuery 2.0 only cares about modern browsers, can't they drastically improve performance by using these equivalent native functions behind the scenes?

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Re:Native equivalents of jQuery functions by k3n on Monday May 20, 2013 @11:34PM (#5741759)

They do all over the place. Still, there's an abstraction layer to work with in detecting these host methods and in providing a backwards-compatible implementation (polyfill).

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