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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: jquery and hoi polloi
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 4:33:52 PM UTC-6, Christoph M. Becker
> wrote:
>
>> IMHO the biggest problem with libraries such as jQuery is that
>> they obscure what's going on behind the scenes -- even up to the
>> point where beginners think that jQuery and "Javascript" are
>> competitors when it comes to browser scripting.
> 
> If my memory serves me correctly, I think it was even advertised this
> way.

That would have been sad.

> More than once I've considered it a shame that the jquery didn't
> splinter off with its community back in 2007 when Resig was playing
> with a "compiler":
> 
> <http://ejohn.org/apps/jquery2/>

Thanks for the link -- I didn't know this.

Apparently, no browser vendor was interested in implementing support for
<script type="text/jquery">[1] -- probably for good reasons.

[1] <http://de.slideshare.net/jeresig/meta-programming-with-javascript>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker