Do you still jQuery ?

In this Strongly coupled with the past post, I'd like to ask you, in case your next big project is still using jQuery, if that's strictly necessary, considering the many new standards that meanwhile landed in every browser.
Also, don't forget why polyfills are a very useful "moe forward" approach ;-)

New DOM Specs about addEventListener

In this DOM Listener: capture, passive, and once I explain what are these latest specifications about.

But there's more: latest dom4 libary also brings in new Event, new MouseEvent and best of all new KeyboardEvent polyfill for all trhe platform to simplify that much the creation of events!

JavaScript Interfaces

In this Implementing Interfaces in JavaScript blog entry I'll show a new way to enrich prototypal inheritance layering functionalities a part, without modifying prototypes at all. A different, alternative, and in some case even better, approach to mixins.