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Here's a list of DOM bugs in browsers that jQuery works around:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LPaPA30bLUB_publLIMF0Rlh...

Pretty sure they're not all fixed, and this is just the ignorance du jour.

So many of the author's examples required different bits of code for different browsers. It's almost like they don't understand why people use jQuery and just chalk it up to ignorance when using a framework it's almost a necessity these days.

It's this stupid "you're not a real developer unless you're twiddling bits on your hard drive with a magnet" mentality that I absolutely despise.

It's a page and a half of mostly IE bugs. You should know your bugs and not try to cover them up but, more troubling that you don't want to know these things. Programmers I know want to write code, especially things as insignificant as these.

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