> "jQuery is an interesting language. But I feel like it's no more "javascript" than C is assembly." To me, jQuery feels like a better javascript than javascri

> "jQuery is an interesting language. But I feel like it's no more "javascript" than C is assembly." To me, jQuery feels like a better javascript than javascript itself. Manipulating the DOM with plain old javascript is what feels like using C. All the quirky function names, all the weird browser variance. It's like being in college again, trying to get C++ I wrote in Windows to compile in Linux. While jQuery is merely a library at the moment, I have to wonder if there would be any drastic speed improvement (other than negating the download time) if someone implemented the jQuery API as a browser plugin (or just tacked it on to the JS spec itself). I'm not saying that this would have any immediate practical application (since no one installs plugins anyway), but the idea sounds just silly enough to be interesting at least.