Originally, mostly for ideological reasons and because people simply followed the anti-Microsoft trend. Technologically, IE was not a bad browser when it was released and had quite a few advantages over Navigator/Communicator.
Of course, when Microsoft decided to abandon the whole thing and the competition (i.e. Mozilla) continued working on it, IE slowly lost these advantages.
So, down the line there were certainly also technological reasons why people were not too fond of it, but most of the dislike originated from said anti-Microsoft ideology. Of course, we are speaking here about 20ish years ago.
PHP does come with an incredible amount of functionality out of the box. Though that does not mean one may never have to intgrate a library.
That being said, the dependency insanity which became commonplace with JavaScript becoming more accepted as backend language is a different story of course.
> But the US has said it will not pressure Ukraine to negotiate and has even discouraged it from negotiating. State Department spokesperson Ned Price seemed to suggest that Ukraine continue to fight and Ukrainians continue to die rather than ending the war by negotiating
This domain appears to have used these two bizprime servers for almost two years, however they only return a generic IP address which most likely serves that "for sale" page.
Currently, however, the domain does not point to these nameservers but to ns3.aqadvisor.com and ns4.aqadvisor.com instead. DNS glue appears to be present for these two servers, however they themselves do not consider themselves authoritative for the domain (and don't return their own names) but only refer to bizprime again.
The whole DNS setup is somewhat broken and needs fixing by the site owner.
I recently migrated a personal project to a newer version of a library it is using and that version dropped its jQuery requirement. In that process I also rewrote my own code using jQuery and moved to vanilla JavaScript.
A lot, that required or semi-required jQuery before can now be done with vanilla JavaScript, however jQuery is still going strong with invoking code on sets of elements as well as cascading calls.
jQuery has been a fantastic library and deserves all the praise, however a lot of its functionality has made it by now into the language itself.
To answer your direct questions, I couldnt think of any "issues", at worst you download an additional 30 kilobytes (gzipped) but with today's mentality of megabytes and megabytes for websites, that really shouldnt matter much. As for advantages, as mentioned, JavaScript did take over a lot of functionality, but as direct advantages I'd consider aforementioned features. Additionally, there certainly is also still a lot of libraries/plugins which depend on jQuery.
Of course, when Microsoft decided to abandon the whole thing and the competition (i.e. Mozilla) continued working on it, IE slowly lost these advantages.
So, down the line there were certainly also technological reasons why people were not too fond of it, but most of the dislike originated from said anti-Microsoft ideology. Of course, we are speaking here about 20ish years ago.