On: You might not need jQuery

[sfeng]

This is actually a great example of the purpose of the site. Since IE8, browsers have supported a native 'sizzle-style' element querying syntax: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/#finding_elements

IE9 and later also support a native each. You are correct however that you'd have to use Array.prototype.each.call, because the NodeList is not a real array.

[exizt88 → sfeng]

Resig on document.querySelectorAll: http://ejohn.org/blog/thoughts-on-queryselectorall/

Good SO discussion on this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11503534/jquery-vs-docume...

[tghw → exizt88]

It's still more complex, because you still have to iterate over it.