I love minimal code. When you try to do minimal, often what you end up doing is stripping away everything you don't need -- extreme YAGNI -- and getting to the

I love minimal code. When you try to do minimal, often what you end up doing is stripping away everything you don't need -- extreme YAGNI -- and getting to the core of something. Even if the result ends up being too minimal, it's often extremely educational. To remove the jQuery dependency I'd suggest looking at this: http://minifiedjs.com/ http://minifiedjs.com/