David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day

From	David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day
Date	2011-11-07 04:20 -0800
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David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day

Volume 1 - Tip 3A

For God's sake, don't use jQuery under any circumstances.

http://pengbos.com/blog/a-bug-in-jquery-latest-releasev1-6-2

Not fast, not concise, just creates a whole lot of confusion for no
good reason. Google combinations of: "jQuery", "attr", "prop",
"removeAttr", and now "removeProp" (!) and find lots of similar tales.
The "attr" variety is old news, the others were recently added to try
to fix the problems it created.

The client above just needed code like this:-

el.readOnly = b; // That's all

...instead they spent what appears to be hours slogging through
jQuery's muck.

The common recurring theme is that nobody associated with the project
seems to understand what these functions do or how to design
alternatives that make sense. Meanwhile, entire books and blogs about
jQuery are "right" one day and "wrong" the next as jQuery fiddles
endlessly with their core DOM code. Virtually every jQuery example
ever written makes at least one call to "attr".

http://www.cinsoft.net/
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David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 04:20 -0800
  Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-11-07 16:26 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-11-08 09:02 +0200
      Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 10:52 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 10:47 -0800

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