Ubiquitous jQuery has been outmoded by JavaScript and browser advances. ... according to web technology surveyor W3Techs. Nevertheless, the jQuery library, ...

For years, jQuery has been a staple of the web, handling such tasks as HTML, document traversal and manipulation, and event handling. It’s used by 96.4 percent of websites whose library is known ...

JQuery appears to be the most widely used JavaScript library, with 32 percent of the million most-visited Web sites using the technology, according to an ongoing survey from W3Techs.

In the note, they announced plans to drop support for legacy versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser in jQuery 2.0 The 2.0 update is expected to release next year.

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