A trackback on one of my previous posts (yeah, trackbacks aren’t just for spam) alerted me to an interesting point brought up by a blogger named Matt Pass. In his post entitled Walnut, Meet jQuery Sledgehammer he politely explains why he feels it’s overkill to use jQuery in a simple tutorial post.
His main point is summarized in this quote:
Do you really need a 90k JavaScript library (and thats the minified version)
Article source: http://www.impressivewebs.com/why-use-jquery-simple-tutorials/