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It's really interesting to get the opinion of a jQuery core contributor on this whole thing. I can't imagine very many people are in a better position to comment on the state of current WebKit bugs than the folks writing the most popular DOM/AJAX library on the web.

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He had me until he put bloated (as a description of jQuery) in quotes.

Admittedly, he was refering to the 2.0 line, the goal of which was to drastically lower the size of the codebase by cutting out support for non-current browsers.

Feature bloat is still bloat. jQuery is a DOM library, an XHR library, an animations library, a functional library, a promises library... as far as I know 2.0 doesn't do anything about that issue.

In either 1.9 or 2.0 you have the option to exclude XHR or animations as well as several other functional modules. More feature-lopping capability will be coming soon.

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