In the past months I’ve decided to invest most of my time learning new ways to use jQuery for simple functions as well as some advanced things.
All I would have to say is that jQuery is not a hack it’s just a formal way of introducing JavaScript to web browsers to that the code is implemented in such a way that is executes nearly identical in whatever browser you choose.
jQuery is implemented on 95% or more of websites in a production environment today and runs very quickly as rendering JavaScript or JS has gotten better over the last five years.
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