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For #3, I say skip jQuery and go with Vanilla JavaScript ala https://javascript30.com

Every green browser have pretty good JavaScript support. document.getElementById will be your friend.

This looks great!! Will have to peek at it more myself.

As you can tell, I'm a vanilla fan myself. Although I do think the DOM is still unnecessarily verbose - that aside, `innerText` still is not cross browser, so for that reason alone I recommend jQuery `$("#id").text("foo")` to discourage use of `.innerHTML` :( .

To my mind, using innerHTML is far better than including a 32K library just to avoid using it.

Why is innerText not cross browser? According to caniuse it's been in every major version of every popular browser for over a year.[0]

[0] http://caniuse.com/#search=innerText

Oh hmmm, I thought I tried it just the other month and it wasn't working. Maybe I hadn't updated IE, but I thought it was the whole Edge/11 split problem. Thanks for correcting me!

This is especially true if you want to apply for a job some day. Programming interviews are going to expect plain old javascript, not a framework-oriented approach. More importantly, jQuery is a tool. Know what you're making before you bother with a tool that makes it easier.

Not the programming interviews I've been in (on both sides).

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