I don't think "nothing like jQuery" is really correct here; its API is very similar to jQuery. In fact, it behaves a lot like a very small subset of jQuery, as

I don't think "nothing like jQuery" is really correct here; its API is very similar to jQuery. In fact, it behaves a lot like a very small subset of jQuery, as a neighbouring post to this one points out. I can imagine it's handy if one wants something like the jQuery API but doesn't need support for all of the CSS selector features, or for older browsers, and wants to save a few bytes on downloads, given that it's much smaller (the uncompressed jQuery source is something like 60 times the size of this library, although in its defence that includes inline documentation).