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The current jQuery landscape

The current jQuery landscape - jQuery Tutorial

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The current jQuery landscape

- Let's look at the current jQuery landscape. In other words, what versions of jQuery are available and which ones might we like to use. First, specifically looking at the versions, we have jQuery 1, which has the widest compatability and the largest footprint. What do I mean by that? Widest compatibility refers to the browsers that it supports. Usually when we're talking about browser compatibility, we're turning our eyes toward Internet Explorer. In this case, jQuery 1 supports versions of Internet Explorer back to six and above. The cost of that compatibility is a larger download, so the browser just has more work to do whenever you want to load jQuery. At the time of this recording, this hasn't quite happened yet, but soon jQuery 1 is going to become known as jQuery Compat 3. We'll go over why in a minute. The other version of jQuery that is currently available is jQuery 2. It has good compatibility. In other words, it supports versions of Internet Explorer back to nine and above,…

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