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		losvedir on May 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'm still using jQuery > * Perhaps those 10 lines work equally in multiple environments (node, deno, electron, browser) where jQuery does not. Heh, and here we come full circle. I remember back when the whole point of jQuery was to handle the different underlying JS implementations for you.

austincheney on May 27, 2019 [–]

Yeah, that always passed me off. I had little trouble writing cross browser code, but to be helpful jQuery would add code especially for IE that always got in the way when debugging cross browser compatibility problems.

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