What do you guys think of this critique of jQuery I found on Simon Willison's site (which is good reading).
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/ <quote> jQuery is definitely a popular utility function library, but the sheer amount of dual/triple/quadruple special-case uses for both function calls and method names is an instant turnoff for me. The jQuery object itself can perform a selector query, embed a DOM element, create a DOM element from HTML and assign a DOMContentReady event handler - and probably more. Event handling is separated into separate methods for each event type. Some method names make no immediate sense, like .one or .eq, and you can't immediately tell if a method acts on the first element in the collection or all of them. I can't recommend jQuery to the developers I am mentoring because it is in itself a completely separate abstraction, and a muddy one at that. They will end up having to learn jQuery instead of having to learn DOM, CSS and JS, and when being considered as a direct replacement for those it fails both due to complexity and inconsistency." </quote> Mitch
