The browser added all of these nice append(), prepend() methods, but then made them return undefined. 
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Replying to @matthewcp
Yep - can't chain them. Another un-usable API from "the platform"

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Replying to @AdamRackis @matthewcp
it's not that it wasn't considered - there was lots of consideration iirc... I easily find talk of it going back to at least 2010/11
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Replying to @briankardell @matthewcp
But I mean ... jQuery existed in 2011. How was it even possible to be against chaining back then?
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Replying to @AdamRackis @matthewcp
Not only existed but created a standards team to help https://blog.jquery.com/2011/10/24/announcing-the-jquery-standards-team/ …. Standards are hard, wins not always 'complete'
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I would send you some links, but they appear to have been removed by history. If you want more, maybe I can write something
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Replying to @briankardell @AdamRackis
I would be interested in hearing about prepend/append return value considerations if you remember them.
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I think that 2011 was the time period where hip standards people had "principled" objections to the jQuery API stylr
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