A whole 28KB that's probably cached anyway? And your suggestion is write your own custom wrappers to avoid overhead? So you or someone else can learn all your

A whole 28KB that's probably cached anyway? And your suggestion is write your own custom wrappers to avoid overhead? So you or someone else can learn all your custom things. No to all of that. Get off the "too cool for Dad" train and just use jQuery if you already know it and it fits for what you are doing. If something else is better, (including native), use that.