If you want to do this style of JS development and get backwards compatibility for 2005-era browsers (AJAX and event differences, basically) and no other "utili

If you want to do this style of JS development and get backwards compatibility for 2005-era browsers (AJAX and event differences, basically) and no other "utilities" that just rename DOM functions and helpfully put them under 10 layers of property access indirection, Peter Michaux's Fork JavaScript is highly recommended (mirror: https://github.com/vsedach/fork-0.1.1 https://github.com/vsedach/fork-0.1.1). That's the way I like to write JavaScript.