>Yes, "you may not need jQuery"; but, there's a lot of things in life that make life better even if you don't need them. It turns out, high-level, fluent APIs a

>Yes, "you may not need jQuery"; but, there's a lot of things in life that make life better even if you don't need them. It turns out, high-level, fluent APIs are one of those things. I'm glad others are finally coming to this conclusion as well. I've been saying this for over a decade: jQuery success was not only cross browser compatibility. There were plenty of competing libraries at the time that offered it. jQuery won because of its powerful, composable and succinct API. Nothing has come close to it still for DOM manipulation. And also: direct DOM manipulation is not evil, it just needs discipline, but so does programing in general.