[boredpudding]

A long time the web was like this:

In IE6, you do it like this.

In IE8, you do it like this.

In Firefox, you do it like this.

Then jQuery came along. And it was like 'Now you do it like this, and jQuery handles it for all browsers perfectly'.

Just because some tasks are now performed easily in native javascript on all browsers, doesn't mean it was always that way.

[rplnt]

There are lots of legitimate reasons to not use jQuery. Not being in a browser might be one of them. So if someone asks about javascript, one should answer the question (and perhaps suggest that there are libraries such as jquery that handle it better).