I rather like jQuery as it just patches over so much of the DOM API, which offends my sensibilities of what a "good API" should look like. I don't think the jQu

I rather like jQuery as it just patches over so much of the DOM API, which offends my sensibilities of what a "good API" should look like. I don't think the jQuery API is perfect, but it's a lot better. But I never really liked jQuery UI, either as a user or developer. As a user, the whole "desktop semantics in your browser" is one of those things that was worth trying 15 years ago, but it mostly never really worked all that well, and pretty much everyone has dropped it. As a developer I feel jQuery UI is too complex for what it does, partly because of the above. At any rate, jQuery and jQuery UI are two entirely different projects.