5 ms·

well that's the trade-off, isn't it? unless my app is speed-heavy, i'm not gonna spend the extra man-hours needed (that jquery saves me) so that website runs ne

• walshemj 12y ago
  good luck ranking in google and explaining your self to your md when your major publishing site takes 20 seconds to load I wont mention any names but I know of two cases of this.
  • shakethemonkey 12y ago
    The jQuery library is 45k, half that if gzipped. If it's taking 20 seconds to load, your birds are too slow.[1] [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
  • lolwhat 12y ago
    if it takes 20 seconds to load, you have bigger problems than jquery.
    • walshemj 12y ago
      From experience where there is jquery there is normally at least a dozen other js files cut n pasted at random along with a similar number of css files with no thought to efficiency - hell most sites I se they can't even optimised the godamm images using Photoshop properly.
      • thedufer 12y ago
        "JQuery is bad because some people who use it do unrelated things wrong"? Should I stop driving because some other people who use cars happen to cheat on their taxes?