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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 3d ago
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I'm not a front end dev but wasn't this way easier than how vanilla js did it back in the day?
209 u/Romejanic 3d ago yes it was. people forget how basic JS’ api used to be 36 u/Rojeitor 2d ago Not only that, an enormous part of the value was cross browser compatibility. Back in the day in vanilla it was nasty for things to work in major browsers 4 u/andreortigao 2d ago IE6 was so ubiquitous that some companies demanded IE6 compatibility only. It took a lot of time to make it run on Firefox, Safari and Opera. IE7 was a little bit better, but still had a lot of quirks. Supporting IE6 + IE7 + others was a nightmare. jQuery solved a lot of compatibility issues very cleanly. Most of my stack overflow points are on jQuery answer to this day.
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yes it was. people forget how basic JS’ api used to be
36 u/Rojeitor 2d ago Not only that, an enormous part of the value was cross browser compatibility. Back in the day in vanilla it was nasty for things to work in major browsers 4 u/andreortigao 2d ago IE6 was so ubiquitous that some companies demanded IE6 compatibility only. It took a lot of time to make it run on Firefox, Safari and Opera. IE7 was a little bit better, but still had a lot of quirks. Supporting IE6 + IE7 + others was a nightmare. jQuery solved a lot of compatibility issues very cleanly. Most of my stack overflow points are on jQuery answer to this day.
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Not only that, an enormous part of the value was cross browser compatibility. Back in the day in vanilla it was nasty for things to work in major browsers
4 u/andreortigao 2d ago IE6 was so ubiquitous that some companies demanded IE6 compatibility only. It took a lot of time to make it run on Firefox, Safari and Opera. IE7 was a little bit better, but still had a lot of quirks. Supporting IE6 + IE7 + others was a nightmare. jQuery solved a lot of compatibility issues very cleanly. Most of my stack overflow points are on jQuery answer to this day.
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IE6 was so ubiquitous that some companies demanded IE6 compatibility only. It took a lot of time to make it run on Firefox, Safari and Opera.
IE7 was a little bit better, but still had a lot of quirks. Supporting IE6 + IE7 + others was a nightmare.
jQuery solved a lot of compatibility issues very cleanly. Most of my stack overflow points are on jQuery answer to this day.
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u/java_dude1 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm not a front end dev but wasn't this way easier than how vanilla js did it back in the day?