And what's IE10s market percentage? Less than a fraction of a fraction of a percent I bet. And with current reviews of Win8, I don't see that changing in a meaningful way for soooome time.
I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.
IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP. IE10 won't run on Windows Vista. So it's safe to say that even with silent updates (which still won't automatically run on corporate machines with corporate IT policies that control the updates), IE8 and IE9 usage won't rapidly drop into low single digits.
Was anyone else surprised by the performance penalty of jQuery? Over 400x hit for getElementsByTagName! I'm curious whether this is more due to cross browser checks or determining the what type of selector was used. To the source!
I suspect the benchmark is flawed, and charging jQuery for one-time penalties for every function. i.e., if you make a page that has nothing but a getElementById call, vs. loading jQuery and executing the query on the DOM, it's obviously going to be a lot slower. Even if that's not the case, "fast enough" is fast enough...and jQuery has proven itself to be fast enough for a lot of stuff. And, most developers working in JavaScript and building their own helper libraries and such are extremely likely to make worse libraries than jQuery. So, it's probably smarter to use a library that's getting a lot of vetting by really smart people. Whether it's jQuery or something else, I'm not gonna go back to hand-written JavaScript (I'm in the midst of converting an app to use jQuery from handwritten functions, and the new version is either faster or similarly fast, and maintenance of the frontend is getting vastly simpler with every element that gets converted from the handwritten functions to jQuery+Bootstrap...hell, sometimes, I'm able to just use markup with no JavaScript on the page at all...and that's like magic).
I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.
IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP. IE10 won't run on Windows Vista. So it's safe to say that even with silent updates (which still won't automatically run on corporate machines with corporate IT policies that control the updates), IE8 and IE9 usage won't rapidly drop into low single digits.
As a note, at my company last year the xp images JUST got IE7. And last week, as the first group of people, our group got upgraded to Win 7+IE8. Major corporations are slooooow at updates.
I'm just happy its happening at all, I know people at banks that have IE6 still.
And what's IE10s market percentage? Less than a fraction of a fraction of a percent I bet. And with current reviews of Win8, I don't see that changing in a meaningful way for soooome time.
I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.
How's this going to work for corporate installs? As much as I love the idea of big companies being forced forward, I have the nagging feeling that Microsoft will include a get-out-of-jail-free card for them.
(Speaking as a medium-sized corporation user stuck on Snow Leopard. :] )
I can't be the only one getting tired of sites like this making the front page. Really? It would be one thing to see someone write a legitimate article on why they think the move to JS frameworks is harmful and/or the benefits of using plain JS, and for that to make it to the front page. I'd be interested in that perspective. But this is just somebody being snide. It's the internet equivalent of the kid on The Simpso…
Reading the example code I learned enough to become interested in vanilla javascript. Although satirical in tone, I found it insightful. It lead me to question the necessity of using jQuery for every project.
I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.
IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP. IE10 won't run on Windows Vista. So it's safe to say that even with silent updates (which still won't automatically run on corporate machines with corporate IT policies that control the updates), IE8 and IE9 usage won't rapidly drop into low single digits.
IE8 will probably be more persistent than IE9. I think a lot of corporations are still on XP. Mine is, for example. When companies finally make the jump to Win7, I think they'll move pretty quickly to IE10, so as not to be too far behind. After all, we should expect IE11 next year.
I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.
What about IE8? That's still well above 10% I think.