- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:20:25 -0400
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: > Yes there are. ?jQuery doesn't put out very many updates, and I don't > think most people alter their jQuery file. It's only one file, not multiple? And people don't inadvertently change newline style, or minify it using different incompatible minifiers, or combine it with their other files so that they only serve a single JS file? And you're taking into account that certainly the majority of sites don't use jQuery at all? And that you'd have to remove it when the user cleared their cache? Does anyone have statistics on how useful this would be in real life? I suspect only marginally. > That'd only address the things that the various vendors can agree are > 'standard' enough to push into a common API. That would be enough for most people. > It would also mean that > legacy browsers break completely, as you're depending on the browser's > built-in libraries that don't exist in older versions. No, because you could have compatibility libraries that you just wouldn't load if the browser already supported the features.
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