I only made one example, another one might be `classList.add`, jQuery's `$.fn.addClass` accepts a string which may contain multiple space-separated classes, whi

I only made one example, another one might be `classList.add`, jQuery's `$.fn.addClass` accepts a string which may contain multiple space-separated classes, while the "native" version accepts multiple string arguments. That's a very different interface. > - Doesn't arbitrarily transform property names Ok, would you then prefer to reimplement the vendor-prefixing logic on your own or just not support browsers that only support the vendor-prefixed version of a property? I can see your point, and in some ways I agree with that "philosophy", but my point was that I wouldn't personally call these functions "jQuery alternative" in this context, as the 2 are pretty different beasts.