The primary benefit of jQuery was to provide a compatibility layer on top of the bugs, omissions and and inconsistencies in the browsers implementations of the

The primary benefit of jQuery was to provide a compatibility layer on top of the bugs, omissions and and inconsistencies in the browsers implementations of the standards. The solution here is for the browsers to iron out these issues, not to provide a brand new API for ding the same things which would probably have the same amount of issues.