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by indspenceable 5239 days ago
I don't follow why not to use jQuery. Because then you can roll your own library, and deal with the bugs that they've already fixed when making jQuery? And also you can implement all of the browser dependent cases yourself?

Help me out, here.

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There are only a handful of cross browser incompatibilities and the JQuery source is painful to read. Why _should_ one use JQuery?
Exactly! How is reinventing the wheel going to help? The title doesn't make any sense.