jQuery 3.0 Stops Supporting Internet Explorer Workarounds (softpedia.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:30AM from the ghost-of-browsers-past dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Thursday's release of jQuery 3.0 is "the first version that features absolutely no workarounds for old Internet Explorer browsers," reports Softpedia. "If customers are still asking you to work with IE6, IE7, and IE8, then you should stick with jQuery 1.0 for the foreseeable future." The jQuery blog explains that over 18 months of development, "We set out to create a slimmer, faster version of jQuery (with backwards compatibility in mind)... It is a continuation of the 2.x branch, but with a few breaking changes that we felt were long overdue." Besides jQuery's free, open source JavaScript library, they also released a "slim" version that excludes ajax and effects modules (as well as deprecated code), and a new version of the jQuery Migrate plugin.

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Re:So it's useless in the real world. by Shados · 2016-06-11 02:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

No, it really IS useless.
If you only target modern browsers, between querySelectorAll, XHR2 or fetch (ok, that will need polyfilling), and all the newer stuff that's available in 95% of browsers, jquery is very nearly useless.
The only reason to use it is to deal with older browser quirks. Once you don't need to support that, you don't need jquery.