JQuery Kills Innovation

What nonsense.

OK - the title is supposed to be link bait but...

jQuery is a platform - a foundation of you like that abstracts away the complexity of a large number of common tasks. You build your design on that foundation - and that is where the innovation is displayed.

Architectural designs are not criticised because they are all founded on a similar concrete base.

Completely disagree.

jQuery is a tool to make things simpler. Innovation comes from creating new tools that can make everyday work as simple as possible.

jQuery in itself is innovation. And to the developer ecosystem provides a lot of innovation. Making other librares do greater stuff and moving standards forward.

Making tools is one of the best ways to innovate.