blog.craiga.id.au — Why I Hate jQuery

From the front page of the jQuery web site:

You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM Javascript. By the time you are done it’s down to two or three lines and it couldn’t get any shorter unless it read your mind.

When did a single line of complicated code become a better thing than a readable ten line function?

Published: Wednesday, 30th January 2008 at 2:10 PM

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By day, he works for ABC TV as a web dev­el­oper. By night, he plays bass gui­tar in Look Who's Tox­ic. He also runs a little Unix Time­stamp con­ver­sion site. There are plen­ty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.