Part of Remy Sharp’s argument that jQuery is still relevant is this incredible usage data:
…I’ve been playing with BigQuery and querying HTTP Archive‘s dataset … I’ve queried the HTTP Archive and included the top 20 [JavaScript libraries] …
The DOM and native browser API’s have improved by leaps and bounds since jQuery’s release all the way back in 2006. People have been writing “You Might Not Need jQuery” articles since 2013 (see this classic site and this classic …
Most WordPress themes show user Gravatars in the comment threads. It’s a way of showing an image with the user, as associated by the email address used. It’s a nice touch, and almost an expected design pattern these days.
Every …
One of the big reasons to use jQuery, for a long time, was how easy it made Ajax. It has a super clean, flexible, and cross-browser compatible API for all the Ajax methods. jQuery is still mega popular, but it’s …
Many sites with lots of written content employ specially crafted print style sheets. That way, a user can print out the relevant content without wasting paper on navigation, ads, or anything else not germane.
Articulate.js, a jQuery plugin, is …
It took a minute, but I believe we have arrived at Baby Bear on the jQuery conversation. Some choice quotes from the ensemble cast blog post:
…Nathanael Anderson: The biggest negative for jQuery in this day and age is that
I posted about jQuery UI’s position feature years ago, but I was just thinking of how useful the collision detection part of that feature is. In a nutshell: you can position an element where you want them to go, …
If you’re used to something like jQuery UI resizeable, you get events you can bind to during the resizing, but also at the end of resizing.
No such event exists in native JavaScript.
You can fake it by setting …
I don’t always write CoffeeScript, but when I do, I’m probably using jQuery too; I always forget the syntax for stuff. So I’m going to write it all down here so I can reference it until I memorize it.…
Let’s say there is a feature on your website that only gets used 5% of the time. That feature requires some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work. So you decide that instead of having that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on …
Aside from a few esoteric tricks involving stuff like the resize handle on textareas, draggable elements is JavaScript territory on the web. E.g. click on element, hold down mouse button, drag mouse cursor, element drags with the mouse, release mouse …
