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drm604

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1. One of the great things about jQuery was it's cross-browser compatibility.

Reply to Paul E Ester (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2013, 03:23 PM

Apr 2013

Now they're trashing that by dumping IE8? There are still a lot of XP machines out there.

What sense does it make to talk about "web sites that need to accommodate older browsers". Wouldn't that be all websites that accept public traffic?

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jQuery 2.0 Released [View all] Paul E Ester Apr 2013 OP

One of the great things about jQuery was it's cross-browser compatibility. drm604 Apr 2013 #1

Firefox remains light, fast and free. napoleon_in_rags Apr 2013 #2

Right, just put up a notice: "If you want to buy from us, you must install Firefox" (n/t) William Seger Apr 2013 #4

So true. The large telecom company I work for is very slow at gtar100 May 2013 #5

"You can (and should) continue to use jQuery 1.9..." William Seger Apr 2013 #3