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copied!<p>I do understand you. I had the same thoughts for quite a while. However, in this particular instance it has a good reason why so many people are using a framework (jQuery as the most popular nowadays). The reason is, not to care about browser-differences + a nice toolkit of methods and functions.</p> <p>But the first thing (browser differences) is by far more important. If you're going to write everything on your own, you just have to care about SO SO many things for all those browsers and versions out there, it's just disgusting. So some smart clever people came up with the idea, why not creating a library which abstracts all those differences and we can use the same set of methods on almost any browser platform. Boohja, that is how a Javascript library is born.</p> <p>Another point you mentiond: <code>loading the ENTIRE jQuery framework (...)</code></p> <p>Well, as you also correctly mentioned, jQuery is so popular it's so likely that an user already has a jQuery-version cached in his browser. So it's always a good idea to first try to load a library like jQuery from a common CDN like Google. The chances that the browser don't even need to download it are pretty good.</p> <p>Now I'm not gonna argue about the code quality and stuff like that. But jQuery is a pretty solid lib. It offers a very nice browser abstraction along with a convinient syntax (jAndys opinion). But there are lots of other very nice librarys out there. In general I would always recommend to use one, especially for large scaled web applications.</p> <p>At some point, you'll start anyway to write your own methods to abstract browser differences and behaviors on your own, because it is just annoying to write so much more code every time. Therefore no need to invent the wheel here (only for learning purposes probably).</p>

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