Re:You might not need jQuery
by dmethvin on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:37PM
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> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy*".
Not true, and has never been true; maybe you confused jQuery with Zepto? "#id" uses getElementById, ".class" uses getElementsByClassName, more complex selectors go through querySelectorAll, and custom selectors through Sizzle.
> And like others said, people mostly use like 1% of the API, which has as easy native browser support.
Hard to argue with that statistic since it's made up!
Not true, and has never been true; maybe you confused jQuery with Zepto? "#id" uses getElementById, ".class" uses getElementsByClassName, more complex selectors go through querySelectorAll, and custom selectors through Sizzle.
> And like others said, people mostly use like 1% of the API, which has as easy native browser support.
Hard to argue with that statistic since it's made up!