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Has anyone noticed how all UK government websites like https://www.gov.uk/, https://www.nhs.uk/, https://tfl.gov.uk/, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ have the same look-and-feel and the same UX? Are there more such examples of countries that have uniform UX for their government websites?
Has anyone noticed how all UK government websites like https://www.gov.uk/, https://www.nhs.uk/, https://tfl.gov.uk/, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ have the same look-and-feel and the same UX? Are there more such examples of countries that have uniform UX for their government websites?
This is probably the biggest hole in vanilla js. In particular building a large DOM structure requires so many method calls.
jQuery lets one use an innerHTML-ish style, but it is supposedly guarding against injection attacks in some way. I don't like the hand-wavy way it claims to guard against injections, as basically it has no way to tell what part of a string was meant to be text, and what was meant to be elements.
So I ended up coding my own library. No conversion of strings to elements, so naturally no injections. Very small and simple. But saves a ton of typing when generating DOM structures in JavaScript: https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker
If you are mainly using jquery for its DOM manipulation¹ rather than for browser compatibility² or things that didn't exist consistently in older browsers³ then there are much smaller libraries that do that job which may be worth looking into. https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash or https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella to give a couple of examples. Some explicitly support IE11 so you are not dropping as much support for legacy browsers as you might otherwise.
Though if jQuery works for you and isn't a performance issue, then by all means keep with it. It may not be ideal, but good enough and does the job. Let the naysayers spend their time debating whether you should or not, and just get on with making things!
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[1] selection engine, chained selections, chained modifications, …
[2] not the issue it once was, if you can abandon IE and old Android browsers from your supported UAs or can deal with any issues that crop up individually
[3] again, if you can afford to drop support for legacy UAs
If you are mainly using jquery for its DOM manipulation¹ rather than for browser compatibility² or things that didn't exist consistently in older browsers³ then there are much smaller libraries that do that job which may be worth looking into. https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash or https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella to give a couple of examples. Some explicitly support IE11 so you are not dropping as much support for legacy browsers as you might otherwise.
Though if jQuery works for you and isn't a performance issue, then by all means keep with it. It may not be ideal, but good enough and does the job. Let the naysayers spend their time debating whether you should or not, and just get on with making things!
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[1] selection engine, chained selections, chained modifications, …
[2] not the issue it once was, if you can abandon IE and old Android browsers from your supported UAs or can deal with any issues that crop up individually
[3] again, if you can afford to drop support for legacy UAs
