JQuery, You’re Great But…It’s Just Not Going to Work Out

An admirable effort.

I think the age of jQuery is coming to an end as native browser APIs improve. Probably the biggest reasons to use jQuery on a modern development project are the easy AJAX and the painless cross-browser compatibility. And now that most websites don't bother targeting IE6 and IE7, and even IE8, the cross-browser compat is becoming easier to handle without such a fairly heavyweight library.