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mkmcdonald | 13 years ago

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.

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nilliams|13 years ago

Selector engines are clearly not silly abstractions otherwise all major browsers would not have implemented querySelectorAll.

MatthewPhillips|13 years ago

But since they did, why use jQuery on mobile when 100% of mobile browsers support querySelectorAll?

mkmcdonald|13 years ago

…which is a façade for the existing CSS engine. Developers clamoured for it (right or wrong), and it was implemented.

taligent|13 years ago

Hilarious that you think that one of the core features of the most successful JS library in history is a "silly abstraction".

And JQuery is much more than just a selector engine.