someone at Google or Mozilla should already have been writing an API that's similar to jQuery that just "compiles down" to the DOM methods so that the loading o

someone at Google or Mozilla should already have been writing an API that's similar to jQuery that just "compiles down" to the DOM methods so that the loading of jquery isn't necessary. I'm surprised no one's pushed for using jQuery's API as an additional DOM API. Old browsers you load jquery, new browsers you don't and your code doesn't change. It would cut down on a few seconds of load time for sure and it'd be better than using a CDN.