What useful things could a javaScript library provide?
- by Delan Azabani
In many of my answers I repeatedly urge users not to use JavaScript libraries like jQuery. I even wrote a blog post about the problems that using a library create.
Some of these problems include holding back native standards development, keeping users comfortably using IE, and abstracting the developer from real JavaScript.
If a site doesn't require IE as part of its audience, then how are libraries useful? The other popular browsers share extremely similar implementations and work well with things like JavaScript 1.6 arrays and AJAX. This is not a troll question, I'm truly wondering what they're useful for.