Bullshit. Unless 95% of your jQuery usage is just finding some elements and the… doing nothin with them. Meanwhile others do some stuff: like attaching event h

Bullshit. Unless 95% of your jQuery usage is just finding some elements and the… doing nothin with them. Meanwhile others do some stuff: like attaching event handlers, manipulating attributes, class names; doing animation, making AJAX requests, etc. Most of these differ to some degree accross browsers and that's there jQuery comes in: to unify the API.