[dahauns]

You bring up prototype of all things as an argument for having less design flaws than jquery...sorry, I really don't want to sound snarky, but that made me chuckle.

Their moronic choice of directly extending the DOM was a more fundamental and far-reaching flaw than any of the - definitly numerous - problems and bad choices jquery has and had in the past, and it's one of the reasons it's has all but vanished for years now.