> If your decision not to use jQuery (or another lib that makes your life easier) is because of performance then you're optimising much too early. LOL. That's

> If your decision not to use jQuery (or another lib that makes your life easier) is because of performance then you're optimising much too early. LOL. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. This is John Resig, isn't it? :) > Personally I optimise for developer time first and raw performance much further down the line. Yeah, you just set a new precedent. :( > And dom querying is not usually the bottleneck in most sloppy sites... You are allowed more than one bottleneck. > its way too many event listeners. And jQuery comes to the rescue once again with extremely easy (to read and write) event delegation. You just have no frame of reference.