>> "Its speed improves in each release." This should worry you. It does me. http://blog.jquery.com/2008/06/04/jquery-126-events-100-faster/ http://blog.jquery

>> "Its speed improves in each release." This should worry you. It does me. http://blog.jquery.com/2008/06/04/jquery-126-events-100-faster/ http://blog.jquery.com/2008/06/04/jquery-126-events-100-fast... >> Event Handling is 103% Faster >> CSS Selectors are 13% faster >> .css() is 25% faster etc. Each to their own, but checkout the source code, and checkout writing javascript without any library. If speed matters, or large scale, or custom things, etc then it's not an odd decision to write the javascript code yourself.