What is the difference between Zepto and jQuery 2?
There are those two similar projects:
Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API.
jQuery 2.0 beta: Here is your taste of the future, a jQuery that can be faster and smaller without the need to support IE 6, 7, or 8. It’s a great choice for platform-specific HTML applications.
Is this only about performance or do they follow different approaches?
Answer
The primary difference between Zepto.js and jQuery are their respective file sizes of Zepto.js's ~20kb (minified, not gzipped) instead of jQuery's ~80kb,And Zepto.js's ~10kb (minified, Gzipped) instead of jQuery's ~30kb. Furthermore, Zepto’s support for browsers such as IE<10 is either lacking or not guaranteed, its target platforms are:
- Safari 5+ (desktop)
- Chrome 5+ (desktop)
- Mozilla Firefox 4+
- iOS 4+ Safari
- Android 2.2+ Browser
- Other WebKit-based browsers/runtimes
- webOS 1.4.5+ Browser
- BlackBerry Tablet OS 1.0.7+ Browser
- Amazon Silk 1.0+
- Opera 10+
- Internet Explorer 10+