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jQuery is not 238KB in any form that you would ship to a user. It is a 29KB minified and gzipped - which is a world of difference and perfectly acceptable for mobile use (likely smaller than most images you'll be using on your site, for example).


Of course if you have IE6, gzip can be a problem.


If you have IE6, then gzip is the least of your problems.


Ah yes, blame the user. That's always the best policy.


But he's blaming the browser.




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