I like the progressive enhancement approach using a small amount of JS, and I'm fine with jQuery. The thing is that I don't _use_ very much of jQuery. Rather th

I like the progressive enhancement approach using a small amount of JS, and I'm fine with jQuery. The thing is that I don't _use_ very much of jQuery. Rather than pull in all of jQuery you could just define your own `get` and `post` to abstract the XHR verbosity. No need to pull in a giant library to do that