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I can't imagine why you'd need jQuery on mobile in the first place? What exactly are these core features that the standard DOM apis don't give you?
I suppose you write all your code in assembly too? There's no room for going higher-level than the APIs exposed by the browser?
The C vs. Assembly argument is such a silly non-point; apples and artichokes.
A lot of good changes in here. The modularity will improve usability -- particularly for sites who want the core jQuery features without all the extras. My hope is this will make it easier to use jQuery on mobile -- and more comparable to Zepto in terms of size. I remember reading somewhere that 1.8 would drop support for quirks mode in IE. Anybody know if this ended up happening? I didn't see any mention in this pos…
I can't imagine why you'd need jQuery on mobile in the first place? What exactly are these core features that the standard DOM apis don't give you?
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I can't imagine why you'd need jQuery on mobile in the first place? What exactly are these core features that the standard DOM apis don't give you?
A massive script such as jQuery does not belong on a mobile device, minified or not. Surely mobile developers would know that minimal script is best.
"jQuery is now powering about one-half of all the major web sites on the Internet" Anybody have any data on this?
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I suppose you write all your code in assembly too? There's no room for going higher-level than the APIs exposed by the browser?
The DOM API is clear enough that silly abstractions like "selector engines" are unnecessary. The C vs. Assembly argument is such a silly non-point; apples and artichokes.
"jQuery is now powering about one-half of all the major web sites on the Internet" Anybody have any data on this?
http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery is where we get that statistic from
A lot of good changes in here. The modularity will improve usability -- particularly for sites who want the core jQuery features without all the extras. My hope is this will make it easier to use jQuery on mobile -- and more comparable to Zepto in terms of size. I remember reading somewhere that 1.8 would drop support for quirks mode in IE. Anybody know if this ended up happening? I didn't see any mention in this pos…
Many Quirks pages could still use jQuery 1.8 successfully if they avoid asking for dimensional measurements, but I'm not sure why developers would still use quirks since it throws IE into prehistoric mode and has serious performance impacts.
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The DOM API is clear enough that silly abstractions like "selector engines" are unnecessary. The C vs. Assembly argument is such a silly non-point; apples and artichokes.
Selector engines are clearly not silly abstractions otherwise all major browsers would not have implemented querySelectorAll.
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A massive script such as jQuery does not belong on a mobile device, minified or not. Surely mobile developers would know that minimal script is best.
I browse to tons of pages on my phone every day that presumably use JQuery and work fine. We're not in the WAP days anymore.
Try loading a page without script bloat and you'll see a noticeable difference.