No, you're not alone. This is exactly what i said when i first say the examples. But there's a reason for that. I use YUI all the time and think its excellent,

No, you're not alone. This is exactly what i said when i first say the examples. But there's a reason for that. I use YUI all the time and think its excellent, but i think that its too verbose. And apparently a lot of people think that way too. So this is their approach to learn from jQuery's minimal syntax(which i love too)... It definitely shows that they're listening to the community...