I think you end up playing wack-a-mole for a very long time. Indeed I think browsers add new moles faster than they can be whacked. For every bit of horror that

I think you end up playing wack-a-mole for a very long time. Indeed I think browsers add new moles faster than they can be whacked. For every bit of horror that gets "fixed" we get a couple of new bits of craziness and the fix is usually I nconsisfenfly implemented and has its own issues. There are two good things about jquery, flawed as it is — it lets you get stuff done without really understanding the details and it presents a usable idealized picture of what the DOM ought to be without pushing your face into the underlying mess. It also provides a pretty satisfying programming idiom for JavaScript.