Well. I just looked through Glow, and ... Yeah. Anyway, to salvage something from this: all I want out of these "frameworks" are ways to do DOM work based on

Well. I just looked through Glow, and ... Yeah. Anyway, to salvage something from this: all I want out of these "frameworks" are ways to do DOM work based on CSS selectors. jQuery, prototype, dojo ... all I want is $(..) Anyhow, I was in the middle of ripping down dojo's query.js, which is the standalone CSS3 select/query part of dojo, so I could just deal with that without the rest, and I stumbled across DOMAssistant. I've only been using it a couple of days now, but it's less painful than the other frameworks, because it pollutes my head less. It's basically just A) the fastest and most complete CSS2.1 and CSS3 selectors (currently fastest slickspeed), and B) a minimal framework where everything is accessible off of $() and $$(). The 'whole' thing is 9k gzipped, too. Anyway, there are probably a ton of very useful things that jQuery/prototype/effects.js/mootools do that all-day js wonks know like the back of their hands; I like DOM assistant for the querying, though.