[jcampbell1]

> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy".

I seriously doubt you ever "checked". You would know that jQuery's selector engine (Sizzle) is optimized and uses getElementBy* when it can. You would also know that every browser has bugs in querySelectorAll, and jQuery's selector engine detects the bugs and routes around the browser bugs.

https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/src/sizzle.js

[wyuenho]

How complicated your query have to be to run into these QSA bugs? Don't forget that you are paying a very high performance cost for compatibility. I mean, how many people are still on Chrome 21 and Firefox 3.5?