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		nilliams on June 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? Selector engines are clearly not silly abstractions otherwise all major browsers would not have implemented querySelectorAll.

MatthewPhillips on June 22, 2012 | [–]

But since they did, why use jQuery on mobile when 100% of mobile browsers support querySelectorAll?

mkmcdonald on June 22, 2012 | [–]

…which is a façade for the existing CSS engine. Developers clamoured for it (right or wrong), and it was implemented.

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