if one of the main benefits of jquery is cross browser javascript support, does that become less valuable as more browsers aim to become standards compliant and the same javascript works on all browsers?
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if one of the main benefits of jquery is cross browser javascript support, does that become less valuable as more browsers aim to become standards compliant and the same javascript works on all browsers?
jQuery is more than just a simple abstraction of basic browser APIs, it also provides a nice libary of helpful functions like animate(), and nice framework for making reusable components. So I think it will remain useful for a long time.