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		esailija on Feb 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JZed.js – The functional JQuery alternative jQuery API is nothing like the DOM API. This library is a list of functions that are nothing but proxies for some other functions which you might as well call directly. Given that the author has written this http://zedshaw.com/essays/indirection_is_not_abstraction.htm... I am sure this is some kind of joke...

coldtea on Feb 8, 2014 [–]

>jQuery API is nothing like the DOM API.

That's the whole point of making a wrapper around an API. That it doesn't look like the API you're wrapping.

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