I've seen a couple of people talking this way lately, and while we might be able to start talking about this in five years, the idea that after IE8 (or even IE9

I've seen a couple of people talking this way lately, and while we might be able to start talking about this in five years, the idea that after IE8 (or even IE9), we're past the point of needing a library to abstract away the differences between browsers is pure fantasy. As is the idea that now that we have querySelectorAll, the DOM suddenly isn't a complete nightmare of an API.