On 7 March 2012 16:19, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > "Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> Then again, when giant things like jQuery is considered >> a "necessity" when I get by just fine with my 10 KB >> (source, not minified, not gzipped) custom library, >> if even that, it shows there's a big disconnect between >> me and most other web people nowadays. > > Yea, a disconnect of about 50 IQ points (in your favor). > > Things like that are why I hate "typical" web developers and webdev > "conventional wisdom" (hah!) with a burning passion. We're talking > "thermonuclear power of a thousand suns" here. > >
I don't know what webdev "conventional wisdom" is, but it would be nice to use site that don't eat my CPU because of a billion different javascript, erm, scripts all trying to do things. There's something to be said for rolling your own libraries. However, I would like jQuery's CSS selector engine as a standalone library, sooo much easier than complex DOM lookups, especially when you want something fairly specific. -- James Miller
