jQuery 3.0 Released and Other JavaScript News
Found on Softpedia on Saturday, 11 June 2016
The jQuery Foundation released yesterday version 3.0 of the jQuery JavaScript framework, the first version that features absolutely no workarounds for old Internet Explorer browsers (IE6-8).
Furthermore, since not all Web projects require AJAX, which takes quite a lot of the jQuery base, the project is now offering a jQuery Slim build without the AJAX and Effects modules.
You can basically just drop jQuery. If you know your Javascript, you can do it directly, without pulling in this dependency.