What's jQuery Doing on Standards?
summary
jQuery Foundation joins W3C/ECMA, pushes concrete fixes: replaces jQuery’s synthetic-id query hacks by driving a proposed findAll/querySelectorAll scoping bug spec (email thread Oct–Dec 2011, ends in proposed spec), and designs a standard document.parse/template parsing mode to replace brittle wrapMap HTML-string hacks. Also endorses dropping IE6–8 in jQuery 2.0 backed by browser-share trends showing a shrinking slow tail. Both efforts are implemented in spec proposals and are progressing toward interoperable browser support.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00The W3C
- 1:46Browser Trends
- 2:25Internet Explorer
- 5:40Browsers
- 6:29Slow tail shrinking
- 6:49The cutting edge
- 7:57How does standards work
- 8:59People like me are getting involved in the process
- 9:42New Sugar or New Primitives
- 10:45Consensus
- 11:19Workers
- 12:23W3C Process
- 13:53Feedback Process
- 14:31Candidate Recommendation
- 15:09Mailing Lists
- 15:40Grids
- 16:25Grid
- 18:28Chrome
- 18:49Feedback
- 19:20jQuery Foundation
- 20:11jQuery Selectors
- 22:54Naming Issues
- 24:20Edge Cases
- 25:30parse
- 26:23wrapmap
- 26:39document parse
- 27:28template element parse
- 28:08crisis of confidence in W3C
- 28:25Who are the people making the consensus
- 28:45If I am not for myself
- 29:05Custom Selectors
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