You might not need jQuery

Re:You might not need jQuery by Jach on Thursday January 30, 2014 @06:14PM (#7154045)

Considering XMLHttpRequest is what other browsers used before IE caught up, I assume it does work the way you'd expect across modern browsers. I'd have to check the standard and IE8+'s conformance to the standard to be sure. That's what this post is really about for me, reminding that modern browsers follow a standard that allows for getting rid of most of jQuery. Reading it also made me recall a post from 2005 by PHP's creator: http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX... (Note IE uses ActiveXObject.)

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Re:You might not need jQuery by annnnd on Friday January 31, 2014 @05:38AM (#7156110)

XMLHttpRequest was first introduced in IE5. I think in retrospect MS regrets its introduction, but that is another discussion entirely.

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Re:You might not need jQuery by fish2000 on Friday January 31, 2014 @02:31PM (#7158656)

As I recall, they specifically implemented it in order to facilitate Outlook’s web interface – their collective regret may be tempered by the satisfaction they got from all those high-margin site license sales to which that feature contributed.

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Re:You might not need jQuery by billmalarky on Saturday February 01, 2014 @02:04PM (#7162872)

I wouldn't mind hearing a snippet of that discussion. Why would MS regret XMLHttpRequest?

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Re:You might not need jQuery by mkr-hn on Sunday February 02, 2014 @07:25AM (#7165779)

Microsoft twiddled its thumbs while the web grew up and around Windows using the technology the company introduced.

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Re:You might not need jQuery by billmalarky on Monday February 03, 2014 @03:50PM (#7173374)

That makes complete sense. Never thought of it that way.

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