Yeah, for what little front-end dev I do these days I prefer to keep the abstraction a bit more at the jQuery level. Quite a few of the mini-jQuery libraries,

Yeah, for what little front-end dev I do these days I prefer to keep the abstraction a bit more at the jQuery level. Quite a few of the mini-jQuery libraries, like the ones I linked to, are doing just that and allowing the sort of DOM manipulation it does but without all the other stuff.