"Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax", that's an attention grabbing title with an attack on a free open-source project. It took you at least 20m to write that post, probably over an hour. You can't just say "oops".
I (not really a frontend web developer, though I've done a little bit of it) immediately went "oh, script loading in HEAD?" before even opening the article.
Most people, at least in this neck of the woods, use jQuery. Most people also put it in the HEAD and are susceptible to this sort of thing. "jQuery tax" is a succinct way of describing the phenomenon, and nobody's going to suddenly think less of jQuery because of it.
1) If it took him a month to write that article, he could still say 'oops'. He's entitled to err.
2) It seems like you're the only one interpreting his post as an attack on jQuery. It isn't. You said in another thread that English isn't your first language. I'd suggest you temper your accusations in light of that knowledge.
3) Even if he were bashing jQuery, and even though it is a good and widely used framework, that's his right to do. Yes, it is your right to cry foul, as it is my right to attempt to set you straight.
Simply put, I think you're off the mark here. Your attack on him are more damning than his supposed attack on jQuery, and strikes me as defensive.
>You said in another thread that English isn't your first language. I'd suggest you temper your accusations in light of that knowledge.
As a native English speaker, I would like to point out that alecco is _correct_ when he interprets the article as slinging mud at jQuery; there is nothing wrong with his/her English vis-a-vis his interpretation of this article's title. The fact that you would tell him/her to pipe down because he's not a native speaker is disgusting and xenophobic. As a side note, your comment about alecco being "the only one" interpreting the post as attack on jQuery is completely false. S/he's dead on about it being what I call a DCA, or "deliberately contentious assertion", designed to win more page views than an article merits.
Honestly, if alecco were expressing an opinion with which you agreed, would you still be saying s/he 'just doesn't understand the article due to poor language skills'? Or do you reserve this treatment for those foreigners who dare disagree with you? The fact that you dug thru alecco's comments in other threads to find this ad-hominem rock to sling... the reason you had to mention his/her non-native speaking comment from another thread is because alecco's English is good enough that you wouldn't know s/he's a non-native speaker from this thread.
Non-English natives are allowed to have opinions at variance with your own, sir or madam. Leave
It wasn't meant to be an attack. The point was that I felt Alecco was being overly harsh, if not in this particular post, in others on that thread.
I didn't dig through their history for a rock to sling, but they mentioned it elsewhere in the same thread.
I don't have a dog in this fight regarding the article. It isn't an opinion I particularly agree or disagree with. I have no affiliation to the author, to the blog, or to any of the individuals I've remarked in this thread. I also like jQuery, so if anything, I'm arguing from the same bias as Alecco, in that I think it is a very high quality open source implementation of an amazing JS framework. I even read through the article multiple times to seek out the jQuery bashing Alecco alleges. I can't find it.
At first, I thought it was a popular opinion, until I realized that each of the remarks I believed to be overly negative were from the same person.
There wasn't any malice intended except to say "Hey, lighten up. People are allowed to make mistakes." One of the tenets I believe is core to Hacker News working is the assumption of good faith. I don't believe that Alecco was deliberately trying to malign the author, but the statements certainly come off as though they did not assume good faith.
I have tried to do so here, as in my original comment, but I do not believe you have extended me the same courtesy.
In the interest of promoting civility, I'll disregard your final remark, except to say that English is also not my first language.
