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 Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-11 01:54 · Score: 2, Interesting

So? You made the decision to use Microsoft technologies. Full stop.
That's like whining about gas mileage standards when you own a Hummer. The rest of the world shouldn't bow to your special snowflake existence.
Sorry that's harsh...but it's also how reality works.
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