Its all about balance, you wouldn't use the Zend framework for a site with static content, would you? In the case above, yes jQuery is probably overkill.

All very well and good for simple examples like that but when you start doing some advanced standard compliant DOM stuff with native JS, it gets very painful indeed (especially when redmond is in the equation) jQuery takes alot of the pain away from that!

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