> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "g

> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy*". Not true, and has never been true; maybe you confused jQuery with Zepto? "#id" uses getElementById, ".class" uses getElementsByClassName, more complex selectors go through querySelectorAll, and custom selectors through Sizzle. > And like others said, people mostly use like 1% of the API, which has as easy native browser support. Hard to argue with that statistic since it's made up!