More like progress is figuring out the common patterns and offering shortcuts fo...

oneeyedpigeon · 2024-10-23T12:53:58 1729688038

And it makes sense for those shortcuts, in general, to migrate 'up' the stack, JS -> CSS, JS+CSS -> HTML.

wruza · 2024-10-23T17:53:12 1729705992

Really? I always thought jQuery was just a shorthand for it cause it’s too long to type. And they really walked the DOM to look for an element? What an ugly runtime it was, ugh.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39979816/how-was-jquery-...

hnbad · 2024-10-25T06:53:04 1729839184

Before `querySelectorAll` there was Sizzle, which was the selector engine that was eventually spun out of jQuery itself:

https://github.com/jquery/sizzle

If you think that's wild, before there were dev tools in every browser, there was only Firebug (yes, there was only `alert` before that, we didn't even have `console.log`):

https://getfirebug.com/