For the past couple of years, thanks to the maturing of the web platform,
standardization of EcmaScript across browsers, the adoption of transpiling,
and a focus on performance (not just network transfer but memory
consumption), there has been a movement away from all-in-one libraries like
jQuery
With the coming release of 3.0, the OPAC will now make use of the jQuery
javascript library.
This I think will help greatly to reduce boilerplate JS code, and make it
easier to add more dynamic features and content there.
As such, I was wondering whether it would also be beneficial if we went