Section 2 of 5
The library decade
One library on most of the web, for a decade after the reason had gone.
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Ten years of writing a dollar sign and meaning it
John Resig released jQuery in 2006. It stayed on a majority of measured sites for roughly a decade, well past the point where it was necessary.
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The standard made most of it unnecessary and nobody noticed
The Selectors API gave native querySelectorAll, which covered the single most common reason to load the library. Adoption barely moved.
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Two rivals lost to the one with better documentation
Prototype and MooTools were technically comparable and both faded. The difference was how easy each was to learn from its own site.
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