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cozuya on May 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: PlainJS – The Vanilla JavaScript Repository

but but but "you might not need jquery", all you need is a million extensively tested hand coded if typeof !== undefined and try catches to support enterprise clients. Why would you not want to do that?

Nasmon on May 13, 2015 [–]

The mass of try-catch and the likes simply isn't necessary any more. JS has grown up. IE 8 is still nasty, but if required, one can handle it.

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