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by nilliams 5105 days ago
Selector engines are clearly not silly abstractions otherwise all major browsers would not have implemented querySelectorAll.
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But since they did, why use jQuery on mobile when 100% of mobile browsers support querySelectorAll?
…which is a façade for the existing CSS engine. Developers clamoured for it (right or wrong), and it was implemented.