jQuery .slice() and .promise() interoperability for client-side pagination
Goal Determine how chaining jQuery's .slice() method with .promise() behaves across jQuery 1.12.4, 3.6.0 and 3.7.0 when used for client‑side pagination of a static DOM list. Constraints and uncertainty The entire dataset must remain in the browser, so performance degrades with thousands of nodes. Older jQuery versions (<1.8) have a quirky .promise() imple