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Re: jQuery 4

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

ulrischa wrote: post #35

rationably wrote: post #2

Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0

Not everybody in the world can use modern hard- and software. There are tons of school computer labs running old software

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Re: jQuery 4

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Post by pseudocomposer » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

thrownawaysz wrote: post #99

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I might argue the opposite. What would that have added to this release?

Re: jQuery 4

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

thrownawaysz wrote: post #99

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Re: jQuery 4

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Post by o_m » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #17

b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #14

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there are already de facto two Reacts. by 2060, there will be five.

Two Reacts!?

The main divide now is client side React versus Server Components usually with a node.js backend

Re: jQuery 4

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Post by rtbruhan00 » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

It’s refreshing to see jQuery 4

Re: jQuery 4

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

rauli_ wrote: post #77

underdeserver wrote: post #57

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I'm sorry what

In case you want to use React to make Web sites as well.

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Re: jQuery 4

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Post by gmac » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

lopatin wrote: post #94

altern8 wrote: post #84

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What's wrong with React? It made it so much better to build apps vs. spaghetti jQuery. I still have nightmares about jeeping track of jQuery callbacks

The problem with React is that it solved frontend. So the options are to 1. Code React all day and be happy with it. 2. Come up with reasons why it's bad. There are many talented and intellectually curious people in the field which lean towards 2.

The problem with React IMHO is it’s so dominant and so annoyingly over-engineered for many problems. I use Mithril and find it much less fuss.

Re: jQuery 4

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Post by neals » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:15 AM UTC

rauli_ wrote: post #77

underdeserver wrote: post #57

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I'm sorry what

In case you want to use React to make Web sites as well.

They should make a version of that runs as an app on a phone

Re: jQuery 4

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Post by pmontra » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #80

troupo wrote: post #75

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> Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11. There are likely millions if not tens of millions of computers still running MSIE11. There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16

According to Cloudflare, there are almost no users still on MSIE of any version.[0] Statcounter says there are about 4.6% of iOS users still on iOS 16.[1] My gut instinct is that there are multiple times more people using iOS 16 today than MSIE of any version. [0] https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20... [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/ios/mobil...

I visited a distillery in 2020. Their machines were managed by HP laptops running Windows XP. Those machines and those laptops and that Windows XP are probably still there with their old IE browser.

Re: jQuery 4

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Post by AdrianB1 » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC

I used jQuery for the past ~ 10 years on smaller apps and I had no problems with it. Then I slowly replaced it with modern JS wherever possible and I found that today I am using jQuery only because Datatables.js depends on it.

It was a nice ride, many thanks to the people that worked and still work on it. Not sure we'll ever see a jQuery 5, but that's life.