Well, in the specific case of using native selectors (document.querySelector), I'm sold. It's supported very widely: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-ap

Well, in the specific case of using native selectors (document.querySelector), I'm sold. It's supported very widely: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api-testsuite/level1-baseline-report.html http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api-testsuite/level1... Wish I'd known about this before. I've been using $('#main').get(0) when I didn't want a jQuery object. Which is all kinds of silly.