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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Great decision by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-11 01:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Now they need the guts to stop supporting JavaScript.
Re:What exactly is he supposed to do? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-11 03:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Use IE8 exploit the kickoff to upgrade to Windows 10. Which won't include IE8.
Why write malware when you can use someone else's?