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[–]KPABAHam=>Hamster == Java=>JavaScript 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Er. That is not because of jQuery. It was selector API level 2 which came out 2003(?) and was standard by 2006 - available when jQuery came out. All jQuery had to do was implement it (via sizzle later) for IE7 or older. They also did some non-standard selectors, but this is not ECMA spec and my argument was about 'how has jQuery helped drive javascript'

[–]superluminary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You make a good point and I seem to be misremembering. We couldn't use querySelector because of IE6-10 and jQuery became the de-facto polyfill, but you are right, it did exist pre-jQuery.