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This is nice, but I sort of wish it stated more bluntly that it requires jQuery.

I also wish it didn't depend on jQuery, but that's just personal preference.

I'm the author. I'll be sure to put a notice at the top of the readme that it requires jQuery. Also, I agree with you. The jQuery dependency will be removed eventually. It was a time saver in the short term as we do a lot of DOM manipulation.

FYI: There are error in the display of the blogpost announcing it at: http://blog.recurly.com/

I'm a paying recurly customer, and I think depending on jQuery is totally fine; even if we had to include jQuery on a payment page when we didn't use it anywhere else on our site, that wouldn't be any trouble.

Please, use your precious development time on more pressing issues related to making payment's even easier to accept and integrate!

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