Re: Why IE7-js doesn't use frameworks like jQuery or Mootools?

[Liam Potter]

Well written native JS will almost always be executed faster then a well
written framework plugin.

On 14/04/2011 12:10 am, Enrique wrote:
> Hi ! searching for a good fix for IE7 problems I found IE7.js and also
> Selectivizr. I want to use IE7.js because it fixes :before and :after
> and much more things that Selectivizr.
> But Selectivizr is smaller, and also faster (I'm not sure about this)
> because it uses external frameworks like jQuery, Mootools, etc.
> What do you think about making something similar for IE7 in the
> future? I mean, a smaller and maybe faster optional release for people
> using jQuery or another popular framework.
>
> Also... I've seen that there are a lot of issues difficult to solve
> for IE6, personally I think we should stop solving this, big sites
> like Youtube doesn't support IE6 anymore, even Microsoft has launched
> a campaign against IE6, we should force the user to update if he is
> using IE6, and to invest the time in making better fixes for IE7 and
> IE8.
>
> Regards !
>

[Enrique]

[Dean Edwards]

On 14/04/2011 00:10, Enrique wrote:
> Hi ! searching for a good fix for IE7 problems I found IE7.js and also
> Selectivizr. I want to use IE7.js because it fixes :before and :after
> and much more things that Selectivizr.
> But Selectivizr is smaller, and also faster (I'm not sure about this)
> because it uses external frameworks like jQuery, Mootools, etc.
> What do you think about making something similar for IE7 in the
> future? I mean, a smaller and maybe faster optional release for people
> using jQuery or another popular framework.
>

I wrote IE7.js before MooTools and jQuery even existed. :)

I suppose I could make a version of IE7.js that used another library's
selector engine. It would probably make he code a bit smaller but I
doubt that you would see many speed improvements.

-dean