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You know that jQuery is primarily a "wrapper around the DOM API", right?

Not exactly, jquery offers it's own API which is what makes it powerful and allows for it's method chaining, plugin system etc. A $(".className") returns a jquery object , not a DOM element.

>Not exactly, jquery offers it's own API

Yes, that's the definition of a wrapper: it offers it's own API.

jquery is really it's own abstraction, the jquery API allows you to interact with jquery objects which can do DOM manipulation on your behalf. This library literally returns DOM objects.

jQuery API is nothing like the DOM API.

This library is a list of functions that are nothing but proxies for some other functions which you might as well call directly. Given that the author has written this http://zedshaw.com/essays/indirection_is_not_abstraction.htm... I am sure this is some kind of joke...

>jQuery API is nothing like the DOM API.

That's the whole point of making a wrapper around an API. That it doesn't look like the API you're wrapping.

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