On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:27 AM Chris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was recently told by a youngster that I was a total idiot for working > my way through the new CSS to understand it well. I needed to go > straight over to some Framework that assumes I am stupid, which I > would be if I didn't take the time to understand what I'm really > accomplishing. >
This. So many projects I've picked up from others use jQuery like it's somehow a requirement to do anything, when really it just makes bashing out crappy code faster (something something premature optimisation) - I refuse to use it partly for that reason, mostly because I fail to see the benefit in lugging around a sizeable framework when I intend to use a tiny part of it (never chop down a tree when just the branch will do - old Aussie proverb) that can easily be done in vanilla JS. Someone posted on Quora about a nasty trick they cooked up for a painful tester to essentially gaslight him (it would randomly resize elements on the web page, and this guy would claim that everything was fine on his end and then turn it off before he went over to look at it) and it was jQuery all the way - with minimal effort I ported it to vanilla JS. It's not that hard. Also, I use gmail with an old account that got overtaken by spam that I use for mailing lists as well, and it handles patches just fine. Never been an issue. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
