> Actually, I don't think the chainable API is terribly important. jQuery's API is chainable; that's all I meant by it. Their API overall just simplifies every

> Actually, I don't think the chainable API is terribly important. jQuery's API is chainable; that's all I meant by it. Their API overall just simplifies everything. I'd like to see the standards committees take ideas from development trends and work to simplify the DOM API. Honestly as far as AJAX goes I really think HTTP needs to be put into the JavaScript standard itself; not just the HTML standards. It's hard finding good libraries that can make HTTP calls in the exact same way in both the browser and node (which is important to me because much of my library type code can run in either environment). I had to write this myself and while my implementation is limited it makes my life easier.