[oinksoft]

Rather, the practice of providing a DOM API compatibility layer runs the web, jQuery being the most widely used library of this sort. When you step out of the god-object API jQuery provides and look at the internals, jQuery, MooTools, and Closure look surprisingly similar. I find the latter to provide the best compatibility (so does Google), but that is another discussion altogether.

[flyosity]

Your opinions on what JavaScript libraries provide "the best compatibility" has little bearing on your original statement, that jQuery is not as popular as it actually is.

[lttlrck]

"jQuery is not as popular as it actually is"

Hmm.

[qu4z-2]

Read as "[...] your original statement that jQuery is not as popular as [I believe] it actually is."