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> "document.querySelectorAll(selector)" is a bit verbose

Right. 35 characters.

> "…but jQuery API is no better"

Your jQuery example is 11 characters.

I can’t believe you’re using verbosity as a measurement, while at the same time claiming 35 and 11 are the same.

Does. Not. Compute.

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Sorry for confusion, what i meant was: yes DOM API is a bit verbose, but jQuery is exactly the opposite in a bad sense: it's using too few words to express too many different things.

jQuery uses CSS selectors, which is fairly clear if you have a general understanding of them.

So does querySelectorAll, that's not the issue with jQuery API.

The problem is that "jQuery" function, aliased as "$" has 9 signatures (doing 9 different things, depending on which arguments you send to it), while querySelectorAll does only one thing

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