Introducing jQuery++

What personally put me off jQueryMobile was that it seeks to make everything look like iOS, and to me, that's a no go. That and it being balls slow, even on pretty good hardware.

Without being able to piggyback on the jQuery moniker I absolutely refuse to believe it would have been able to make it on its own.

And as such, I definitely agree with your point about killing prospects of alternative projects. It's sorely needed.

animate - probably wouldn't make sense until CSS is better supported.

styles - I've suggested adding it, but waiting on the "go ahead".

fastfix - I've suggested adding, but jQuery said it wasn't interested. I don't think they realize that although fix in its current state is fast, it's called all the time, making it important.

http://jquerypp.com/#fastfix

Not comprehensive, but it's something.

They also include a link to:

http://jsperf.com/jquery-event-fix

Which lets you benchmark yourself (I'm getting an error in Chrome on OSX).

http://bitovi.com/blog/2012/04/faster-jquery-event-fix.html

There's a JS benchmark.

For styles, there's a demo: http://donejs.com/docs.html#!jQuery.styles

comparing jQuery's height vs one implemented with reading multiple properties. I can get a benchmark for this soon.

As far as animate, that's tricky. There's nothing to measure but framerate I suppose. It does in fact use CSS animations and if you assume they are faster (which what's the point if not) ... then you can assume animate is faster.