Plain JavaScript

"I want to do this with pure JavaScript, not jQuery."

"How do I do this with raw JavaScript?"

"I don't like to use libraries, I like to use vanilla JavaScript."

Enough! Using a library like jQuery (or Closure or MooTools or...) is using plain/vanilla/raw/pure JavaScript. (I mean, unless you're using CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Dart, or other such languages.) Using a library doesn't change the language you're using.

jQuery is a library, not a language. You don't write things "in" jQuery. You write things with jQuery, in JavaScript. Or with MooTools, in CoffeeScript. Or with Closure, in Dart. You get the idea.

If you want to do things in the browser without a browser library, what you're doing is using the DOM API directly. Which is to say, writing with the DOM API, in (choose your language, probably JavaScript).

This isn't just a rant about prepositions. (It is a rant, but not just a rant.) It's about understanding what you're using, and how.

Website Feedback Popups

You want my feedback on your website? Here's my feedback: Website "feedback" popups are irritating and intrusive.

I Don't Want To Create An Account

Note to online vendors:

I don't want to have to create an account to give you business.

Got it? By all means offer me the option of doing so, if that makes you happy, but if I'm buying 10 quid of lightbulbs from your site, or a one-off rail ticket, I really don't want to create a username and password, opt out of your effing mailing list, etc., etc. Imagine if you had to "create an account" with every corner store you bought £10 of stuff from.

And I really don't want to be prevented from making subsequent purchases because I can't remember the stoopid password I gave the last time you made me create an account I didn't want and your "reset your password" feature is slow/broken.

The relevant term here is "barrier to sale." If you're trying to sell things, here's a hint:
Barrier to Sale = Bad Thing^(tm).

(Are you listening, National Rail?)