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No more jQuery?
To their credit, neither JavaScript, nor jQuery has been ever officially supported beyond the Execute JS trigger. And I agree with Matthew about jQuery is a heavy library for using it for our purposes. However, we were not building applications in jQuery. The only reason we used it because that was the only workaround to manipulate object on the screen. Now, maybe we'll have new features, supported features now to do all the things we had to have a workaround for. I'd be happy about to see that! It would also save us from the headache of figuring out what changed on the screen with every release. (Again, this is still available but you need to add jQuery manually.)
A good example of this is how I would use it to find elements in the player and add an ID to them so that I could then easily manipulate them. Now, with jquery gone, I've discovered that many of the previously ID'less elements now actually do have an ID so my jquery shortcuts are obsolete.
Still, a "warning shot across the bow" would have been nice.
