Sounds like Zepto is pretty close to what you're looking for: http://zeptojs.com/ http://zeptojs.com/. Otherwise, jQuery 2.x is just jQuery without support for

Sounds like Zepto is pretty close to what you're looking for: http://zeptojs.com/ http://zeptojs.com/. Otherwise, jQuery 2.x is just jQuery without support for IE 6, 7 and 8. I'm not sure what kind of performance improvements it offers, but it shaves off a few kb.