as more browsers become standards compliant is there less of a value of things like jquery

if one of the main benefits of jquery is cross browser javascript support, does that become less valuab开发者_StackOverflowle as more browsers aim to become standards compliant and the same javascript works on all browsers?

jQuery is more than just a simple abstraction of basic browser APIs, it also provides a nice libary of helpful functions like animate(), and nice framework for making reusable components. So I think it will remain useful for a long time.

No. For one somehow the browsers end up supporting different standards, and there are always things only being added to the standards. Then there's backward compatibility: granted IE6 is mostly RIP, but 7 and 8 are here for a while. And finally, (some) js frameworks are as much about ease of use as useful components, and I have to second NXT on that.

At the very least, there's a rich library of plugins that would take forever to re-create without jQuery.

Also, jQuery has its own style. I kind of like this almost declarative programming using the css selectors with autoprocessing of list, like

$(".button").roundedCorners().click(function(){
  addToMyDisplayDiv($(this).attr("buttonValue");
});

and will use even if all browsers one day concur :-)