Remove jQuery dependency

[andylima]

I really like how Paradeiser looks and works. Thank you! :)

My biggest suggestion is to remove the jQuery "baggage" — consider the following (quoted from the You Might Not Need jQuery site):

If you're developing a library (...) please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement. If you're only targeting more modern browsers, you might not need anything more than what the browser ships with.

Main advantages:

• Users wait less time for your pages to download -- Remember many people are on mobile connections.
• You use commands that are touching the DOM directly. jQuery is a wrapper around the DOM and, as such, many times makes it less intuitive to accomplish some things. Know the DOM, you'll be better off this way. :)
• Simpler setup. From all the JS libraries I've used, jQuery (being by far the most complex) was the only one that choked on my build system's concatenate & uglify step. My build system had to be much more complex just because of jQuery... Removed it. Done!

Some resources that are helpful for switching from jQuery to native JavaScript:

• You Might Not Need jQuery
• jQuery considered harmful - Lea Verou

There's also this one (a bit more advanced):

• Ditching jQuery - Go Make Things

Mmm... Should I just say it? — "No jQuery" is the direction hipsters are taking. :D

The people in-the-know are now developing libraries without the jQuery requirement...

When feasible, a library should stand on its own feet — this way it is (more) future-proof, less dependent on other libraries, easier to get started with, and more flexible to be integrated in systems which don't use jQuery.

jQuery was created for a time when the DOM was hard. The DOM is pretty easy, now. ;)

[lucidlemon]

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

In fact, removing jQuery is already on my agenda. Furthermore I even thought about removing JS entirely to just work with the css :target selector, but I figured out that having the grey box beneath the menu might be a bit tricky then.

The truth is, getting into... "more serious" web development at the start of the smartphone era, I learned JS throughout jQuery (It made much more sense at that time aswell as IE6, 7 and 8 were awful). Hence I'm not good at vanilla JS. But I am willing to do so.

In other words: there will be a non-jquery variant coming within the next few days.

[andylima]

Wow, that was fast! ;) Thank you, @andreruffert !

[lucidlemon]

Oh. This wasn't even you. I was just remembering Andre haha, well... good job by @andreruffert.