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0 pointsbmelton7y ago0 comments

> I cant even name a similar piece of software in web development history that is as important as jQuery.

Apache?

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There were other web servers, there weren't other jQuerys.

I get the point you're mentioning but jQuery was there with Prototype.js and Mootools.

And Dojo and YUI and a couple of others.

But Apache was born before jQuery, and continues to live on after jQuery (should have) died.

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0 pointsbmelton7y ago0 comments

> I cant even name a similar piece of software in web development history that is as important as jQuery.

Apache?

There were other web servers, there weren't other jQuerys.

I get the point you're mentioning but jQuery was there with Prototype.js and Mootools.

And Dojo and YUI and a couple of others.

But Apache was born before jQuery, and continues to live on after jQuery (should have) died.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse