You might not need jQuery

Re:You might not need jQuery by jonknee on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:20PM (#7153103)

And requires IE 9+ which rules it out for a lot of people...

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Re:You might not need jQuery by nelmaven on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:33PM (#7153177)

Actually, no. IE8 supports it.

http://caniuse.com/queryselector

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Re:You might not need jQuery by mattmanser on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:54PM (#7153297)

IE8 is limited to the old CSS selectors so basically it sucks and doesn't really support it.

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Re:You might not need jQuery by emn13 on Friday January 31, 2014 @05:14AM (#7156062)

In practice, especially for javascript usage, the old CSS selectors cover all the bases.

The new-stuff, while great for styling, isn't all that relevant for scripting. nth-child, say, is often (though not always) simply an indexing operation on the return value of querySelectorAll; and in general you don't even want that since usually you have a specific element in mind and have labelled that element with a class to find it.

I don't support IE8 anymore, and use CSS3 liberally in the actual css, yet I can't think of more than a handful of cases I used the selectors from javascript, certainly none of them critical. Do you actually use this?

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Re:You might not need jQuery by sfeng on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:54AM (#7155526)

But so is all of the actual CSS in your app.

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