This also has to do with browser compatibility. Vanilla Javascript sucks so hard because it's so difficult to write non-trivial stuff that just works. This is t

This also has to do with browser compatibility. Vanilla Javascript sucks so hard because it's so difficult to write non-trivial stuff that just works. This is the whole raison d'être for JQuery. This is mainly because the different browsers don't coordinate and there is no official standard. It should have been obvious from the start that this is a recipe for disaster.