I agree. jquery is more straight-forward for the Funcional crowd. which is not everyone. it's almost everyone that do javascript. but even I like to use OO for

I agree. jquery is more straight-forward for the Funcional crowd. which is not everyone. it's almost everyone that do javascript. but even I like to use OO for frontend as it's something i usually write-once-read-four-months-later. and I need that OO constrains to live well with that. About the documentation. it's a reference guide. it's like reading a well formated source code. and the search feature there is top notch. I like it. That's the main advantage to me. jquery tries to patronize me sometimes.