I don't think it's snobbish at all. I see these articles on HN from time to time: 25 Awesome jQuery Tips, Learn YUI Tools Now! and they always appear from some

I don't think it's snobbish at all. I see these articles on HN from time to time: 25 Awesome jQuery Tips, Learn YUI Tools Now! and they always appear from some random blog that just seems to aggregate links from other sites. I love jQuery, but I come to HN to learn about the internals of jQuery, or some other awesome optimization John Resig has squeezed out of JavaScript, not how to select all the div's in my document. You're right, this article isn't for HN.